Model comparison
Claude 3 Opus vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.5 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.8 Flash in 10 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 3.8 Flash leads 65.2 to 13.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.7% for Claude 3 Opus and 98.9% for Gemini 3.8 Flash.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 3.8 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 59.5 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2026-09-02 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $0.75 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $3.75 |
| Results tracked | 46 | 46 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 3.8 Flash leads
Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 56.4 (#17)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1512 |
| DeepSWE | — | 73.8% |
| FrontierCode | — | 41.2% |
| CursorBench | — | 39.6% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1581 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 19.6% |
| SciCode | — | 56.6% |
| WeirdML | 19.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,270 |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | — |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.8 Flash leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.3 (#22)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 64.3% |
| Cybench | 10% | — |
| GDP.pdf | — | 23.4% |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 5,094 |
Reasoning Gemini 3.8 Flash leads
Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 64.7 (#13)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | 61% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1506 |
| DTBench | 61.6% | 95.7% |
| LMCA | 17% | 52.9% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 157.13 |
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 97.4% |
| CritPt | — | 18.3% |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 47% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | — | 76.9% |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | — |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |
Math Gemini 3.8 Flash leads
Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 65.2 (#22)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 98.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1528 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 68.4% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 22% |
| ProofBench | — | 48% |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 3.8 Flash leads
Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 74.9 (#2)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 95.4% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | 69.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1529 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 44.5% |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | — |
| MMLU | 84.6% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 3.8 Flash leads
Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 40.9 (#33)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | 1312 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 38.6% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 31.7% |
Multilingual Gemini 3.8 Flash leads
Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 57.9 (#5)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1486 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1547 |
| LMArena French | 1274 | 1502 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1470 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1505 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1479 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1507 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1492 |
Instruction Following Gemini 3.8 Flash leads
Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 78.2 (#11)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1489 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
Long Context Gemini 3.8 Flash leads
Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 46.2 (#23)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1506 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3.8 Flash leads
Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208), Gemini 3.8 Flash: 72.1 (#16)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1494 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1485 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1503 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1748 |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Opus better than Gemini 3.8 Flash?
Gemini 3.8 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 59.5 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Opus or Gemini 3.8 Flash better for coding?
Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 56.4 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 3.8 Flash share?
25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.8 Flash has 46.