Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#292); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 1 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 1 benchmark with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B in 1 category, but none of those gaps is larger than the uncertainty.
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 28.8 | 29.7 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2024-10-03 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 21 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1218 |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Reasoning Too close to call
Claude Instant: 18.8, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 50% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1210 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.2 | — |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 4.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1207 |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | — | 33% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1185 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| MMLU | 73.4% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1044 |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1215 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1231 |
| LMArena French | — | 1233 |
| LMArena German | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1150 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1236 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1212 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1199 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1219 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1226 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1218 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1185 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B?
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has enough public results to be ranked (#292); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B share?
1 benchmark has published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21.