Model comparison

Claude Instant vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#261); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude Instant Anthropic

29.5

Unranked Sparse

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 59% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).

Side by side

Claude Instant and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) specifications
Claude InstantGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.532.1
Released2023-08-092024-02-15
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked745

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
HumanEval+50.6%79.3%
WeirdML—22.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.8%
LMArena Coding—1294
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
CadEval—34%
MBPP+—74.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
TheAgentCompany—3.4%
Cybench—7.5%
BALROG—21%

Reasoning Claude Instant leads

Claude Instant: 19.6, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
DTBench45.8%59%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.28131.73
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
SimpleBench—27.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1296
BIG-Bench Hard—89.2%
ForecastBench—58.4

Math Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025—23.1%
Omni-MATH—36.4%
LMArena Math—1315
MATH Level 5—70.4%
GSM8K86.7%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
MMLU73.4%86.9%
GPQA Diamond—57.2%
Humanity's Last Exam—4.6%
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—13.5%
GPQA (HELM)—53.4%
LMArena Expert—1279
ARC (AI2) Challenge86.3%—
TriviaQA78.9%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Vision—1161
Video-MME—75%

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Non-English—1312
LMArena Chinese—1331
LMArena French—1302
LMArena German—1286
LMArena Japanese—1292
LMArena Korean—1298
LMArena Russian—1320
LMArena Spanish—1311

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
IFEval—83.7%
LMArena Instruction Following—1297

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Longer Query—1308

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Instant: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude InstantGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Text—1319
LMArena Creative Writing—1333
WildBench—81.3%
LMArena Multi-Turn—1296

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Instant better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has enough public results to be ranked (#261); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.

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