Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Flash Preview in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads 51.7 to 19.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 95.6% for Gemini 3 Flash Preview.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 3 Flash Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 52.3 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2025-12-17 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.50 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $3 |
| Results tracked | 60 | 59 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 50.9 (#42)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GSO | 4.6% | 9.8% |
| WeirdML | 40% | 61.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1460 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 75.4% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 75.8% |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1439 |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | — | 72.7% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,367 |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 38.7 (#29)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | 32.6% | 48.1% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 64.3% |
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| τ²-bench Airline | — | 82.5% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 27.3% |
| τ²-bench Retail | — | 76.8% |
| τ²-bench Telecom | — | 91.2% |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 49.8% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 10% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1198 |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 3,635 |
Reasoning Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 49.2 (#37)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | 61.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1465 |
| DTBench | 67.8% | 89.1% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | 151.8 |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | 58.5 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 33.6% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 83.1% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 84.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 40% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 26% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| LMCA | — | 43.1% |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 51.7 (#55)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | 95.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1473 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | 35.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | 4.2% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 51.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 17.1% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 67.6% |
| ProofBench | — | 15% |
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 58.8 (#33)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | 89.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | 1462 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 66.8% |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 13.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 45.5 (#16)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | 1285 |
| GeoBench | 62% | 88% |
| VPCT | 33% | 72.6% |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 0% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1413 |
Multilingual Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 55.7 (#27)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1458 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 1511 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | 1477 |
| LMArena German | 1297 | 1497 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 1489 |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | 1443 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 1480 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | 1469 |
Instruction Following Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 75.7 (#56)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1437 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
Long Context Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 44.4 (#67)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1452 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Gemini 3 Flash Preview: 65.5 (#45)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 3 Flash Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1466 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1457 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1471 |
| 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 3 Flash Preview?
Gemini 3 Flash Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 52.3 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Gemini 3 Flash Preview better for coding?
Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.9 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 3 Flash Preview share?
31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Flash Preview has 59.