Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Gemini 1.0 Pro

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.5

Rank #310 Confirmed

Gemini 1.0 Pro Google

27.3

Rank #332 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 7 categories and Gemini 1.0 Pro in 1 category; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.2 to 36.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 11.2% for Gemini 1.0 Pro.

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 1.0 Pro specifications
Claude 3 OpusGemini 1.0 Pro
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.527.3
Released2024-02-292023-12-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked4624

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Category by category

Coding Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 32.2 (#275)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Coding12641108
HumanEval+77.4%55.5%
MBPP+73.3%61.4%
WeirdML19.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%—
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Gemini 1.0 Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.0 Pro
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Gemini 1.0 Pro leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 17.1 (#296)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Hard Prompts12451109
DTBench61.6%45.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91117.04
SimpleBench23.5%—
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
ForecastBench58.4—
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 9.3 (#321)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.0 Pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%1.1%
LMArena Math12731132
MATH Level 537.5%11.2%
LiveBench Math43.6%—

Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 15.6 (#291)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.0 Pro
GPQA Diamond47.2%34%
LMArena Expert12231059
MMLU84.6%70%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
Confabulations22.7%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Gemini 1.0 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Vision1023—

Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 33.4 (#252)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Non-English12581138
LMArena Chinese12481124
LMArena French12751145
LMArena German12581125
LMArena Japanese12041023
LMArena Russian12801186
LMArena Spanish12461119
LMArena Korean1187—

Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 57.6 (#267)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following12481114
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—

Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 34.3 (#249)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Longer Query12591132

Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 36.0 (#264)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Text12621149
LMArena Creative Writing12351131
LMArena Multi-Turn12751139
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Gemini 1.0 Pro?

Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Gemini 1.0 Pro better for coding?

They score almost the same on coding (32.9 vs 32.2); test both on your own repository before choosing.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 1.0 Pro share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.0 Pro has 24.

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