Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 27 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 27 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 7 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 37.9 to 10.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 18.2% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 82.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 35.1 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 30 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | 25.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | 45.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1350 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | 59.9% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 38.2% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 63.4% |
| CadEval | — | 30% |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |
Reasoning Claude 3 Sonnet leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1346 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | 63.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 135.36 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 1.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 78.2% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 69.4% |
| LiveBench | — | 66.9% |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 57.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1352 |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | 82.2% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 75.8% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 64.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1339 |
| MMLU | 75.9% | 79.7% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 6.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 55.6% |
Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |
Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1373 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1391 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1353 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1294 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1351 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1363 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1336 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 85.8% |
| IFEval | — | 84.1% |
Long Context Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1344 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1340 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1128 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) is the stronger model overall, scoring 35.1 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?
Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 29.6 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?
27 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.