Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 25.8 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 18.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 70.4% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 32.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-02-15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 45 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | 22.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | 43.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1294 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | 57.5% |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | 79.3% |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | 74.6% |
| CadEval | — | 34% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 3.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
| BALROG | — | 21% |
Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1296 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | 59% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 131.73 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.1% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 89.2% |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.4 |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 23.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1315 |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | 70.4% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 36.4% |
Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 57.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1279 |
| MMLU | 75.9% | 86.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 13.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 53.4% |
Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | 1161 |
| Video-MME | — | 75% |
Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1312 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1331 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1302 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1286 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1292 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1320 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1311 |
Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1297 |
| IFEval | — | 83.7% |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1308 |
Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1319 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1296 |
| WildBench | — | 81.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?
Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?
29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.