Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 34.1 to 14.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Language: 50.4% for Claude 3 Opus and 34.3% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 37.8 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2025-02-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 46 | 32 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | 47.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1322 |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
Reasoning Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | 50.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1245 | 1324 |
| DTBench | 61.6% | 52.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | 65.5% |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | 54.3% |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | 58.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1309 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 37.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1305 |
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 72% |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 50% |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | 1100 |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1323 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1339 |
| LMArena French | 1275 | 1347 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1306 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1301 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1325 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1328 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1313 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | 78.3% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1305 |
| IFEval | — | 82.4% |
Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1320 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1330 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1319 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1307 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | 34.3% |
| WildBench | — | 79% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 29.5 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better for coding?
Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite scores higher on coding benchmarks: 37.9 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite share?
27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32.