Model comparison
Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 2.5 Pro in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 2.5 Pro leads 56.0 to 21.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 3 Sonnet and 84.7% for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.5 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.0 | 45.0 |
| Released | 2024-02-29 | 2025-03-25 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1.05M |
| Max output | — | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $1.25 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $10 |
| Results tracked | 30 | 78 |
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Category by category
Coding Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 42.4 (#101)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 10.2% | 54% |
| LMArena Coding | 1223 | 1452 |
| SWE-bench Verified | — | 57.6% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 53.6% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 83.1% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1227 |
| SciCode | — | 42.8% |
| GSO | — | 3.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 42.7% | — |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 85.9% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 53.8% | — |
| CadEval | — | 64% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 785.52 |
| AlgoTune | — | 1.51 |
| HumanEval+ | 64% | — |
| MBPP+ | 69.3% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Gemini 2.5 Pro: 29.2 (#88)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | — | 32.6% |
| GDPval | — | 23.3% |
| Remote Labor Index | — | 0.8% |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 30.3% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 13.7% |
| DeepResearch Bench | — | 42.8% |
| BALROG | — | 43.3% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1142 |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 55.4% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 573.64 |
Reasoning Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 28.8 (#99)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1197 | 1455 |
| DTBench | 53.6% | 82.4% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.7 | 145.32 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 4.9% |
| SimpleBench | — | 62.4% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 70.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 41% |
| CritPt | — | 2% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 20% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 5.6% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 89.8% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 79.9% |
| LMCA | — | 34.8% |
| ForecastBench | — | 61.3 |
| LiveBench | — | 82.3% |
| WinoGrande | 75.1% | — |
Math Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 32.5 (#213)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 84.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1213 | 1450 |
| MATH Level 5 | 18.2% | 95.9% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 24.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 0% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 41.6% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 90.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 14.1% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 4.2% |
Knowledge Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 56.0 (#46)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 40.6% | 85.3% |
| LMArena Expert | 1173 | 1452 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 21.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 86.3% |
| Confabulations | — | 10.6% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 74.9% |
| MMLU | 75.9% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 45.2 (#18)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 984 | 1263 |
| GeoBench | — | 86% |
| VPCT | — | 48% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1421 |
| SpatialViz-Bench | — | 44.7% |
Multilingual Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 55.3 (#31)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1205 | 1451 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1189 | 1507 |
| LMArena French | 1229 | 1472 |
| LMArena German | 1204 | 1487 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1131 | 1461 |
| LMArena Korean | 1128 | 1434 |
| LMArena Russian | 1227 | 1461 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1204 | 1473 |
Instruction Following Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 75.0 (#75)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1199 | 1437 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 80.6% |
| IFEval | — | 84% |
Long Context Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 59.8 (#5)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1211 | 1449 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 91.7% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 2.5 Pro leads
Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Gemini 2.5 Pro: 63.7 (#62)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Sonnet | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1218 | 1458 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1186 | 1454 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1227 | 1453 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 83.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1421 |
| WildBench | — | 85.7% |
| LiveBench Language | — | 67.8% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Gemini 2.5 Pro?
Gemini 2.5 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 45.0 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Gemini 2.5 Pro better for coding?
Gemini 2.5 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.4 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro share?
24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.5 Pro has 78.