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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Gemma 3 4B
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 52.6% higher average benchmark score. Claude Sonnet 4.5 offers 1.9K more tokens in context window than Gemma 3 4B. Gemma 3 4B is $17.94 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was developed to bridge human thinking and machine assistance, allowing people to work with language and tools in a more conversational and natural way. Built with a focus on turning ideas into results, it represents an evolution in making AI feel less mechanical while maintaining strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and collaborative tasks.
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Gemma 3 4B was developed as a compact yet capable open-source model, designed to strike a balance between performance and resource efficiency. Built with 4 billion parameters and instruction tuning, it provides a practical option for applications requiring moderate capability with manageable computational costs.
6 months newer
Gemma 3 4B
2025-03-12
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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Gemma 3 4B
Input:$0.02
Output:$0.04($17.94 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Average Score:83.4%(+52.6%)
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Gemma 3 4B
Average Score:30.8%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Gemma 3 4B
2024-08-01
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
2 providers
Anthropic
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
ZeroEval
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Avg Score:83.4%(+52.6%)
Providers:2
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Gemma 3 4B
Avg Score:30.8%
Providers:1