Model comparison

Claude 2 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude 2 Anthropic

25.0

Rank #346 Reported

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

45.0

Rank #75 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 2.5 Pro in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 56.0 to 16.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 11.7% for Claude 2 and 95.9% for Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Side by side

Claude 2 and Gemini 2.5 Pro specifications
Claude 2Gemini 2.5 Pro
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index25.045.0
Released2023-07-112025-03-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked878

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 2.5 Pro
SWE-bench Verified—57.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—53.6%
Aider Polyglot—83.1%
LMArena WebDev—1227
SciCode—42.8%
GSO—3.9%
WeirdML—54%
LiveBench Coding—85.9%
LMArena Coding—1452
CadEval—64%
ALE-Bench—785.52
AlgoTune—1.51
HumanEval+61.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 2.5 Pro
Terminal-Bench—32.6%
GDPval—23.3%
Remote Labor Index—0.8%
TheAgentCompany—30.3%
τ²-bench Banking—13.7%
DeepResearch Bench—42.8%
BALROG—43.3%
LMArena Search—1142
METR Time Horizons—55.4%
Vending-Bench 2—573.64

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 2.5 Pro
DTBench51.9%82.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.13145.32
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
SimpleBench—62.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—70.3%
ARC-AGI-1—41%
CritPt—2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
EnigmaEval—5.6%
LiveBench Reasoning—89.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1455
LiveBench Data Analysis—79.9%
LMCA—34.8%
ForecastBench—61.3
LiveBench—82.3%

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 2.5 Pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%84.7%
MATH Level 511.7%95.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—24.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—0%
Omni-MATH—41.6%
LiveBench Math—90.2%
LMArena Math—1450
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—14.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 2.5 Pro
GPQA Diamond34.7%85.3%
Humanity's Last Exam—21.6%
MMLU-Pro—86.3%
Confabulations—10.6%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7%
GPQA (HELM)—74.9%
LMArena Expert—1452
MMLU78.5%—
TriviaQA87.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Vision—1263
GeoBench—86%
VPCT—48%
LMArena Document—1421
SpatialViz-Bench—44.7%

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Non-English—1451
LMArena Chinese—1507
LMArena French—1472
LMArena German—1487
LMArena Japanese—1461
LMArena Korean—1434
LMArena Russian—1461
LMArena Spanish—1473

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 2.5 Pro
LiveBench Instruction Following—80.6%
IFEval—84%
LMArena Instruction Following—1437

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 2.5 Pro
Fiction.LiveBench—91.7%
LMArena Longer Query—1449

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Text—1458
LMArena Creative Writing—1454
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1421
WildBench—85.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1453
LiveBench Language—67.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 2 better than Gemini 2.5 Pro?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Gemini 2.5 Pro share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78.

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