Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 24 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) Google

33.2

Rank #246 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 24 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 9 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 42.0 to 26.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 68.9% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) specifications
Claude Opus 4.1Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index41.033.2
Released2025-08-052024-05-14
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4842

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
WeirdML45.9%24.9%
LMArena Coding14791261
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
LMArena WebDev1390—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.5%
BigCodeBench Complete—55.1%
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—
HumanEval+—75.6%
MBPP+—67.5%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
BALROG—14.6%
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Hard Prompts14431257
DTBench80%53.8%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12129.36
ForecastBench6253.9
SimpleBench60%—
Chess Puzzles7%—
EnigmaEval7.2%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
LMCA37.1%—
PIQA—87.5%

Math Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%16.3%
LMArena Math14311269
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%0%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
Omni-MATH—30.4%
MATH Level 5—61.9%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—
GSM8K—82.4%

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
GPQA Diamond77.3%47.3%
LMArena Expert14391233
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%—
MMLU-Pro—67.8%
Confabulations17.1%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
GPQA (HELM)—43.7%
BoolQ—85.8%
MMLU—77.9%

Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Vision—1141
Video-MME—70.3%
GeoBench—76%
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Non-English14051278
LMArena Chinese14271295
LMArena French14311258
LMArena German14131262
LMArena Japanese13781252
LMArena Korean13801221
LMArena Russian14221288
LMArena Spanish14481243

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Instruction Following14351258
IFEval—83.1%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Longer Query14551284

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
LMArena Text14191287
LMArena Creative Writing14121285
LMArena Multi-Turn14441253
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—
WildBench—79.2%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?

24 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.

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