> Gemma 2 9B is an open-weights AI model from Google, released 24 Jun 2024. Index score 94 (GPT-4 = 100), rank 194 of 229 ranked models.

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# Gemma 2 9B

Google

Released 24 Jun 2024

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[Compare](https://themodelindex.org/compare/gemma-2-9b-vs-claude-3-5-sonnet/)

9481–107

Index score

#194 · provisional, limited data

1/ 8

Core tests taken

1 of 6 areas · plus 3 anchor tests

−18

Versus the frontier at release

best then: Claude 3.5 Sonnet (Jun 2024)

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Price per million tokens

no public API price found

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Context window

tokens it reads at once

## Where it sits · on the frontier

_Chart: Model Index score of every scored model since late 2022, with the best closed and best open model over time_

GPT-4 reached this score 15 months earlier.

## Test results · by area · tick = best by any model

Show 3 anchor tests

Reasoning & knowledge

evidence

GPQA Diamond

27%

Humanity's Last Exam

no result

Maths

evidence

FrontierMath T1-3

no result

Coding

no evidence yet

SWE-bench Verified

no result

Terminal-Bench

no result

Agents

no evidence yet

APEX-Agents

no result

Novel problems

no evidence yet

ARC-AGI-2

no result

Long tasks

no evidence yet

METR time horizon

no result

Independent results from the Epoch AI benchmarking hub, best reasoning setting. The core tests are shown here; anchor tests also inform the score and can be shown above.

## What others say · rank on each leaderboard

The Model Index

independent tests, our method

#194

of 219 · 94

LMArena · Creative writing

creative writing

#264

of 386 · 1259

Epoch Capabilities Index

overall capability from many benchmarks

#166

of 239 · 119.8

LMArena · Text

overall chat quality, judged by people

#286

of 388 · 1267

LMArena · Maths

maths questions in chat

#285

of 373 · 1220

LMArena · Coding

coding questions in chat

#304

of 383 · 1270

Further left is better. Leaderboards measure different things: LMArena is people voting blind between two answers, the others are test scores. Click any row for the source.

## Best at · top three among current models

Not in the top three among current models on any category we track.

Where this model places in the top three of today's models, on category leaderboards and on our core tests.

## Facts and sources

Released

24 Jun 2024

Announcement

not linked yet

Release entry

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Scored as

Gemma 2 9B

Artificial Analysis index

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Output speed

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Hugging Face

not linked

## Google releases · around this one

PaLM 2

Closed

10 MAY 2023

Gemini 1.0 Nano

Closed

6 DEC 2023

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Source: https://themodelindex.org/models/gemma-2-9b/ · The Model Index · data as of 2026-10-01