Model comparison
Claude Instant vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has enough public results to be ranked (#228); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Instant scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 0 categories; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Instant leads 19.6 to 15.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is DTBench: 45.8% for Claude Instant and 63.2% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).
Side by side
| Claude Instant | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 29.5 | 35.1 |
| Released | 2023-08-09 | 2024-12-06 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 7 | 54 |
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Category by category
Coding Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 38.2% |
| WeirdML | — | 25.8% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 63.4% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1350 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 59.9% |
| CadEval | — | 30% |
| HumanEval+ | 50.6% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |
Reasoning Claude Instant leads
Claude Instant: 19.6, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 45.8% | 63.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.28 | 135.36 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | — | 31.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | — | 37.8% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 1.1% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 78.2% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1346 |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 69.4% |
| LiveBench | — | 66.9% |
Math Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | — | 57.8% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 75.8% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1352 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 82.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | — | 1.7% |
| GSM8K | 86.7% | — |
Knowledge Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU | 73.4% | 79.7% |
| GPQA Diamond | — | 64.1% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 6.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 55.6% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1339 |
| ARC (AI2) Challenge | 86.3% | — |
| TriviaQA | 78.9% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1373 |
| LMArena French | — | 1391 |
| LMArena German | — | 1353 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1294 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1313 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1351 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1363 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 85.8% |
| IFEval | — | 84.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1336 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1344 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Instant: —, Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)
| Benchmark | Claude Instant | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1340 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | — | 1128 |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1350 |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.3% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Instant better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?
Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has enough public results to be ranked (#228); Claude Instant does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.
How many benchmarks do Claude Instant and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?
3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Instant has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.