Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemma 3
2026 - Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Gemma 3 is open-weights - free to self-host with no API costs. Claude Opus 4.7 requires paid API access.
- •Claude Opus 4.7 has a 200K context window - 2x larger than Gemma 3's 128K. Better for long documents and large codebases.
- •Gemma 3 is open-source: fine-tune it, self-host it, or use any inference provider. Claude Opus 4.7 is closed-source.
Specs comparison
| Claude Opus 4.7 | Gemma 3 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google DeepMind |
| Type | Closed source | Open source |
| Context window | ✓200K | 128K |
| Input / 1M tokens | $15.00 | ✓Free (self-host) |
| Output / 1M tokens | $75.00 | Free (self-host) |
| Release date | 2025-09 | 2025-03 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.7 | Gemma 3 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | ~75% | - |
| MMLU | ~90% | ~76% |
| HumanEval | ~95% | - |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts.
Strengths
Claude Opus 4.7
- ✓Best-in-class multi-step reasoning
- ✓Strong scientific and mathematical analysis
- ✓Superior long-context comprehension
- ✓Highly accurate instruction following
- ✓Best Anthropic model for research and analysis
Gemma 3
- ✓Runs on consumer hardware (4B and 12B variants)
- ✓Multimodal input support
- ✓Strong benchmark performance relative to size
- ✓Tight Keras and JAX integration
- ✓Good instruction following out of the box
Which should you choose?
Choose Claude Opus 4.7 if you need...
- →Complex research tasks
- →High-stakes code generation
- →Long-document analysis
- →Scientific reasoning
Choose Gemma 3 if you need...
- →On-device and edge inference
- →Low-resource environments
- →Prototyping with free Google AI Studio access
- →Researchers benchmarking small models