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.
Our Verdict
Claude 3.7 SonnetWinner
Gemma 3 12BRunner-up
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.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Input
$3.00
Output
$15.00
Gemma 3 12B
Input
$0.03
100× cheaper
Output
$0.03
500× cheaper
Gemma 3 12B is cheaper on both — 100× input, 500× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
48%
Claude 3.7 Sonnet uses 30.3x more headings
Claude 3.7 Sonnet
Gemma 3 12B
62%Vocabulary52%
35wSentence Length17w
0.99Hedging0.66
1.2Bold6.2
4.3Lists5.4
0.00Emoji0.00
1.78Headings0.06
0.23Transitions0.23
Based on 13 + 23 text responses
Research
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