Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 30 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 30 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 10 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads 36.0 to 27.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 61.9% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 33.2 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-05-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 46 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 19.2% | 24.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | 43.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1261 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | 55.1% |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | 67.5% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1257 |
| DTBench | 61.6% | 53.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 129.36 |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | 53.9 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 16.3% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1269 |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | 61.9% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 30.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |
Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 47.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1233 |
| MMLU | 84.6% | 77.9% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 67.8% |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.7% |
| BoolQ | — | 85.8% |
Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | 1141 |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | — | 76% |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1295 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | 1258 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1243 |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1258 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
| IFEval | — | 83.1% |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1284 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1285 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1253 |
| WildBench | — | 79.2% |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 33.2 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.4 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?
30 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.