Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 6 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B in 3 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude 3 Opus leads 24.5 to 16.0.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 47.2% for Claude 3 Opus and 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-10-03 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 46 | 21 |
Sponsored placements are available on pages like this one. Advertise on Noometry
Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1218 |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1209 |
| DTBench | 61.6% | 50% |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | — |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Too close to call
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 4.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1207 |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 33% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1185 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | 1044 |
Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1215 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1231 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | 1234 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1206 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1150 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1236 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1212 |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1199 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1219 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1226 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1218 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1185 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B?
Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.5 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21.