Claude 3 Haiku vs Gemma 3 270M
Wins 4 of 5 areas
Coding · Reasoning · Long documents · Following instructions
Wins 1 of 5 areas
Facts
Claude 3 Haiku is the stronger all-rounder.Gemma 3 270M is better at facts.
Scores updated · 13 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the five areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking10Claude 3 Haiku1 of 3 tests · 2 ties
- CodingWriting and fixing software10Claude 3 Haiku1 of 2 tests · 1 tie
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts10Claude 3 Haiku1 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked10Claude 3 Haiku1 of 1 test
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up01Gemma 3 270M1 of 1 test
Facts, long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Claude 3 Haiku pulls ahead
- Follows unfamiliar, precisely checkable instructionsIFBench+24points ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+15points ahead
Where Gemma 3 270M pulls ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+50.1points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 13 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingClaude 3 Haiku
- SciCodeClaude 3 Haiku by 18.618.60+18.6
- Terminal-Bench Hardtie0.80tie
ReasoningClaude 3 Haiku
- GPQA DiamondClaude 3 Haiku by 1537.422.4+15
- Humanity's Last Examtie4.13.6tie
- CritPttie00tie
FactsGemma 3 270M
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationGemma 3 270M by 50.119.569.6+50.1
Following instructionsClaude 3 Haiku
- IFBenchClaude 3 Haiku by 2436.112.1+24
Other results5 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- AA-OmniscienceGemma 3 270M by 19.3-48.6-29.3+19.3
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Claude 3 Haiku by 1221.19.1+12
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexClaude 3 Haiku by 6.76.70+6.7
- AA Agentic IndexClaude 3 Haiku by 473+4
- AA Intelligencetie5.65.1tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Claude 3 Haiku or Gemma 3 270M?
Claude 3 Haiku wins four of the five areas where both have results: coding, reasoning, long documents and following instructions. Gemma 3 270M wins facts.
Which is better for coding?
Claude 3 Haiku. It wins 1 of the 2 coding tests both models report; Gemma 3 270M wins none, and 1 is a tie.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 13 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 8 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 5 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.