Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 53 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.4

Rank #225 Confirmed

Gemini 2.5 Pro Google

44.9

Rank #67 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 53 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 2.5 Pro in 9 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 55.8 to 28.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 84.7% for Gemini 2.5 Pro.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.5 Pro
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index34.444.9
Released2024-06-202025-03-25
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$1.25
Output $ / M tokens—$10
Results tracked6078

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.8 (#86)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.5 Pro
Aider Polyglot51.6%83.1%
GSO4.6%3.9%
WeirdML40%54%
LiveBench Coding67.1%85.9%
LMArena Coding13431452
CadEval48%64%
SWE-bench Verified—57.6%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—53.6%
LMArena WebDev—1227
SciCode—42.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
ALE-Bench—785.52
AlgoTune—1.51
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.1 (#81)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.5 Pro
TheAgentCompany24%30.3%
BALROG32.6%43.3%
METR Time Horizons45.2%55.4%
Terminal-Bench—32.6%
GDPval—23.3%
Remote Labor Index—0.8%
τ²-bench Banking—13.7%
Cybench17.5%—
DeepResearch Bench—42.8%
LMArena Search—1142
Vending-Bench 2—573.64

Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#85)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.5 Pro
SimpleBench41.4%62.4%
EnigmaEval0.9%5.6%
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%89.8%
LMArena Hard Prompts13051455
DTBench67.8%82.4%
LiveBench Data Analysis55%79.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55145.32
ForecastBench60.761.3
LiveBench59%82.3%
ARC-AGI-2—4.9%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—70.3%
ARC-AGI-1—41%
CritPt—2%
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMCA—34.8%

Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 31.9 (#191)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.5 Pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%84.7%
Omni-MATH27.6%41.6%
LiveBench Math52.3%90.2%
LMArena Math13061450
MATH Level 556.9%95.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%14.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%4.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—24.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—0%

Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.8 (#41)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.5 Pro
GPQA Diamond55.3%85.3%
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%21.6%
MMLU-Pro77.7%86.3%
Confabulations19.9%10.6%
GPQA (HELM)56.5%74.9%
LMArena Expert12641452
Vectara Hallucination Rate—7%
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 44.5 (#16)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Vision11251263
GeoBench62%86%
VPCT33%48%
Video-MME60%—
LMArena Document—1421
SpatialViz-Bench—44.7%

Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.5 (#30)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Non-English12831452
LMArena Chinese12711507
LMArena French13041473
LMArena German12971487
LMArena Japanese12341462
LMArena Korean12001435
LMArena Russian13051460
LMArena Spanish12891473

Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.2 (#71)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.5 Pro
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%80.6%
IFEval85.5%84%
LMArena Instruction Following12971436

Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.7 (#5)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Longer Query13111449
Fiction.LiveBench—91.7%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.9 (#60)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.5 Pro
LMArena Text12981458
LMArena Creative Writing12921453
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%83.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14511421
WildBench79.2%85.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn13261453
LiveBench Language53.8%67.8%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Gemini 2.5 Pro?

Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 44.9 to 34.4 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Gemini 2.5 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.8 versus 39.5 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro share?

53 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78.

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