Model comparison

Claude 3 Opus vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 37 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.3

Rank #300 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

34.8

Rank #223 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 37 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 8 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 36.1 to 13.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) specifications
Claude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.334.8
Released2024-02-292024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked4654

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3 Opus leads

Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
WeirdML19.2%25.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%45.9%
LiveBench Coding38.6%63.4%
LMArena Coding12641351
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%59.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—13.5%
Aider Polyglot—38.2%
CadEval—30%
HumanEval+77.4%—
MBPP+73.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
TheAgentCompany—11.4%
Cybench10%—
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
SimpleBench23.5%31.1%
EnigmaEval0.8%1.1%
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%78.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts12461346
DTBench61.6%63.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%69.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91135.36
LiveBench49.2%66.9%
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
Chess Puzzles5%—
LMCA17%—
ForecastBench58.4—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%57.8%
LiveBench Math43.6%75.8%
LMArena Math12731351
MATH Level 537.5%82.2%
Omni-MATH—45.9%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
GPQA Diamond47.2%64.1%
Confabulations22.7%12.4%
LMArena Expert12231340
MMLU84.6%79.7%
Humanity's Last Exam—6.6%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
GPQA (HELM)—55.6%

Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Vision10231158
GeoBench—77%

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Non-English12581342
LMArena Chinese12481373
LMArena French12741390
LMArena German12581354
LMArena Japanese12041293
LMArena Korean11871314
LMArena Russian12801351
LMArena Spanish12461363

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%85.8%
LMArena Instruction Following12481336
IFEval—84.1%

Long Context Too close to call

Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Longer Query12591345
Fiction.LiveBench—61.1%

Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Text12621354
LMArena Creative Writing12351340
LMArena Multi-Turn12751350
LiveBench Language50.4%51.3%
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1128
WildBench—80%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Opus better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 34.8 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Opus or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.4 versus 28.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

37 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.

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