Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#246); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 53.8% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 33.2 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2024-05-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | 75.6% |
| WeirdML | — | 24.9% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.5% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1261 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.1% |
| MBPP+ | — | 67.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |
Reasoning Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 53.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 129.36 |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1257 |
| ForecastBench | — | 53.9 |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GSM8K | 86.7% | 82.4% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 16.3% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 30.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1269 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 0% |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 77.9% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 67.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 43.7% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1233 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 85.8% |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1141 |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| GeoBench | — | 76% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1295 |
| LMArena French | — | 1258 |
| LMArena German | — | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1243 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 83.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1258 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1284 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1285 |
| WildBench | — | 79.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1253 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?
Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#246); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?
5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.