Model comparison
Claude 2.1 vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 6 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 6 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 37.9 to 10.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.9% for Claude 2.1 and 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).
Side by side
| Claude 2.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 35.1 |
| Released | 2023-11-21 | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | 25.8% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 38.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 63.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1350 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 59.9% |
| CadEval | — | 30% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |
Reasoning Claude 2.1 leads
Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 63.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | 135.36 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 1.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 78.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1346 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 69.4% |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 66.9% |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 57.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 75.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1352 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 82.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 64.1% |
| MMLU | 73.5% | 79.7% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 6.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1339 |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1373 |
| LMArena French | — | 1391 |
| LMArena German | — | 1353 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1294 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1351 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1363 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 85.8% |
| IFEval | — | 84.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1336 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1344 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude 2.1: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)
| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1340 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1128 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1350 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 2.1 better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 2.1 or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 28.4 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?
6 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.