Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 8 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads 28.5 to 16.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 55.3% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 34.4 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2024-10-03 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 60 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1343 | 1218 |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1210 |
| DTBench | 67.8% | 50% |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | 4.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1306 | 1207 |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | 33% |
| LMArena Expert | 1264 | 1185 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | 1044 |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1215 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1271 | 1231 |
| LMArena French | 1304 | 1233 |
| LMArena German | 1297 | 1206 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 1150 |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | 1305 | 1236 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1289 | 1212 |
Instruction Following Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1199 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1219 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1226 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1218 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1185 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |
| WildBench | 79.2% | — |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.4 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better for coding?
Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21.