Noometry

Model comparison

Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemini 4 Argon

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 13 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Sonnet Anthropic

29.0

Rank #319 Confirmed

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 13 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 4 Argon in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 4 Argon leads 73.9 to 10.7.

Side by side

Claude 3 SonnetGemini 4 Argon
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.056.5
Released2024-02-292026-09-30
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked3021

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 29.6 (#302), Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemini 4 Argon
LMArena Coding12231550
LMArena WebDev—1678
FrontierSWE—55%
SciCode—61.8%
WeirdML10.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct42.7%—
BigCodeBench Complete53.8%—
HumanEval+64%—
MBPP+69.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3 Sonnet: —, Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemini 4 Argon
APEX-Agents—82.2%
Vending-Bench 2—13,718

Reasoning Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 20.5 (#237), Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemini 4 Argon
LMArena Hard Prompts11971548
CritPt—27.1%
DTBench53.6%—
Epoch Capabilities Index120.7—
WinoGrande75.1%—

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 10.7 (#310), Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemini 4 Argon
LMArena Math12131536
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20252.5%—
ProofBench—99%
MATH Level 518.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 21.1 (#276), Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemini 4 Argon
LMArena Expert11731553
GPQA Diamond40.6%—
MMLU75.9%—

Multimodal Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 25.2 (#125), Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemini 4 Argon
LMArena Vision984—
Blueprint-Bench 2—54.4%

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 37.8 (#234), Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemini 4 Argon
LMArena Non-English12051523
LMArena Chinese11891610
LMArena Russian12271537
LMArena Spanish12041497
LMArena French1229—
LMArena German1204—
LMArena Japanese1131—
LMArena Korean1128—

Instruction Following Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 62.8 (#235), Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemini 4 Argon
LMArena Instruction Following11991538

Long Context Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 36.7 (#228), Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemini 4 Argon
LMArena Longer Query12111549

Writing & Preference Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude 3 Sonnet: 42.1 (#238), Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19)

BenchmarkClaude 3 SonnetGemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text12181534
LMArena Creative Writing11861531
LMArena Multi-Turn12271557

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Sonnet better than Gemini 4 Argon?

Gemini 4 Argon is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.5 to 29.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3 Sonnet or Gemini 4 Argon better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 29.6 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Sonnet and Gemini 4 Argon share?

13 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Sonnet has 30 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 4 Argon has 21.

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