Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Gemma 3 12B
Compare Claude 3.7 Sonnet by Anthropic against Gemma 3 12B by Google AI, in 2 community votes, claude 3.7 sonnet wins 100% of head-to-head duels, tested across 55 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Gemma 3 12B?
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 2 blind community votes on Rival. Claude 3.7 Sonnet costs $3/M input tokens vs $0.03/M for Gemma 3 12B. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemma 3 12B
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is made by anthropic while Gemma 3 12B is from google. On pricing, Claude 3.7 Sonnet costs $3/M input tokens vs $0.03/M for Gemma 3 12B. In community voting, In 2 community votes, Claude 3.7 Sonnet wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 2 community votes, Claude 3.7 Sonnet wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 2+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Gemma 3 12B is cheaper on both — 100× input, 500× output
Pick Claude 3.7 Sonnet. In 2 blind votes, Claude 3.7 Sonnet wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Gemma 3 12B is 500x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Style Comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet uses 30.3x more headings
