Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 2 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 32.2 to 15.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SimpleBench: 60% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 31.1% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) specifications
Claude Opus 4.1Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index41.035.1
Released2025-08-052024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4854

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
WeirdML45.9%25.8%
LMArena Coding14791350
SWE-bench Verified73.3%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—13.5%
Aider Polyglot—38.2%
LMArena WebDev1390—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.9%
LiveBench Coding—63.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—59.9%
CadEval—30%
ALE-Bench674.77—
AlgoTune1.34—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Terminal-Bench38%—
GDPval43.6%—
TheAgentCompany—11.4%
Cybench42%—
DeepResearch Bench48.3%—
LMArena Search1148—
METR Time Horizons66.8%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
SimpleBench60%31.1%
EnigmaEval7.2%1.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14431346
DTBench80%63.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12135.36
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
Chess Puzzles7%—
EBR-Bench7.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning—78.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—69.4%
LMCA37.1%—
ForecastBench62—
LiveBench—66.9%

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202568.9%57.8%
LMArena Math14311352
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)7.2%1.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)12.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%—
Omni-MATH—45.9%
LiveBench Math—75.8%
MATH Level 5—82.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
GPQA Diamond77.3%64.1%
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%6.6%
Confabulations17.1%12.4%
LMArena Expert14391339
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%—
GPQA (HELM)—55.6%
MMLU—79.7%

Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Vision—1158
GeoBench—77%
VPCT35%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Non-English14051342
LMArena Chinese14271373
LMArena French14311391
LMArena German14131353
LMArena Japanese13781294
LMArena Korean13801313
LMArena Russian14221351
LMArena Spanish14481363

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Instruction Following14351336
LiveBench Instruction Following—85.8%
IFEval—84.1%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Longer Query14551344
Fiction.LiveBench—61.1%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Text14191354
LMArena Creative Writing14121340
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%73.8%
LMArena Multi-Turn14441350
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1128
WildBench—80%
LiveBench Language—51.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.

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