Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 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 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B in 6 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in coding, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 35.5 to 29.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 40.6% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 33% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 29.9 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-10-03 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1218 |
| WeirdML | 10.2% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1209 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | 50% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | — |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 4.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1207 |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | — |
Knowledge Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 33% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1185 |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | 1044 |
Multilingual Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1215 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1231 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1234 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1206 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1150 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1236 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1212 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1199 |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1219 |
Writing & Preference Too close to call
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1226 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1218 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1185 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B?
Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B score almost the same on the Noometry Index (29.0 vs 29.9), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B scores higher on coding benchmarks: 35.5 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21.