Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 39 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 39 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 2 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 35.3 to 26.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is BALROG: 32.6% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 14.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 34.4 | 32.9 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2024-05-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 60 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 33.9 (#233)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 40% | 24.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | 43.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1343 | 1262 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | 55.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | 67.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.3 (#97)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 32.6% | 14.6% |
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#212)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1257 |
| DTBench | 67.8% | 53.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | 129.37 |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | 53.9 |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |
Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 20.8 (#274)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | 16.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | 30.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1306 | 1269 |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | 0% |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |
Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#253)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | 67.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | 43.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1264 | 1233 |
| MMLU | 87.3% | 77.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 85.8% |
Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 35.3 (#76)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | 1141 |
| Video-MME | 60% | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | 62% | 76% |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 43.1 (#184)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1271 | 1295 |
| LMArena French | 1304 | 1257 |
| LMArena German | 1297 | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | 1220 |
| LMArena Russian | 1305 | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1289 | 1242 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 67.0 (#199)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 85.5% | 83.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1258 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#182)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1284 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.9 (#190)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1285 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | 79.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1253 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 32.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 33.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?
39 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.