Model comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 4 Argon in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 19.2.
Side by side
| Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 4 Argon | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 56.5 |
| Released | 2024-06-20 | 2026-09-30 |
| 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 Gemini 4 Argon leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1550 |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1678 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 55% |
| SciCode | — | 61.8% |
| 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 Gemini 4 Argon leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 82.2% |
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 13,718 |
Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1548 |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| CritPt | — | 27.1% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | — |
| DTBench | 67.8% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | — |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | — |
| LiveBench | 59% | — |
Math Gemini 4 Argon leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1536 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| ProofBench | — | 99% |
| 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 Gemini 4 Argon leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | 1553 |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 4 Argon leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | — |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 54.4% |
Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1523 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 1610 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 1537 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | 1497 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | — |
| LMArena German | 1297 | — |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | — |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | — |
Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1538 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | — |
| IFEval | 85.5% | — |
Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1549 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads
Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19)
| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 4 Argon |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1534 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1531 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1557 |
| 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 4 Argon?
Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Gemini 4 Argon better for coding?
Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 4 Argon share?
13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 4 Argon has 21.