Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.5 vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 28 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic

50.5

Rank #39 Confirmed

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

31.9

Rank #253 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 28 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher in 9 categories and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 1 category; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.5 leads 42.5 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Cybench: 82% for Claude Opus 4.5 and 7.5% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) specifications
Claude Opus 4.5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index50.531.9
Released2025-11-012024-02-15
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6945

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 55.4 (#21), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 33.8 (#239)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
WeirdML63.7%22.2%
LMArena Coding15041294
SWE-bench Verified76.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)76.8%—
LMArena WebDev1493—
SWE-bench Multilingual70.7%—
GSO26.5%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
CadEval—34%
ALE-Bench1,025—
AlgoTune1.77—
HumanEval+—79.3%
MBPP+—74.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 47.2 (#11), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.8 (#137)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
Cybench82%7.5%
BALROG43.5%21%
Terminal-Bench63.1%—
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard77.5%—
GDPval45.5%—
Remote Labor Index3.8%—
TheAgentCompany—3.4%
τ²-bench Airline84%—
τ²-bench Banking24.7%—
τ²-bench Retail79.6%—
τ²-bench Telecom92.3%—
DeepResearch Bench54.8%—
OSWorld66.3%—
LMArena Search1180—
METR Time Horizons75%—
Vending-Bench 24,967—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 42.5 (#43), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#332)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
ARC-AGI-237.6%0.8%
SimpleBench62%27.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14761296
DTBench89.9%59%
Epoch Capabilities Index150.1131.73
ForecastBench60.758.4
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.2%—
NYT Connections (extended)52.5%—
ARC-AGI-180%—
Chess Puzzles12%—
EnigmaEval11.9%—
EBR-Bench14.3%—
Mystery Game Puzzles22%—
LMCA44.5%—
BIG-Bench Hard—89.2%

Math Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 38.5 (#85), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 24.4 (#260)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202586.1%23.1%
LMArena Math14631315
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)34.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 44.9%—
ProofBench36%—
Omni-MATH—36.4%
MATH Level 5—70.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)20.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 56.4 (#38), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.3 (#228)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
GPQA Diamond86%57.2%
Humanity's Last Exam25.2%4.6%
LMArena Expert14881279
SimpleQA Verified45.7%—
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—13.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate10.9%—
GPQA (HELM)—53.4%
MMLU—86.9%

Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 31.1 (#99), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.2 (#72)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Vision—1161
Video-MME—75%
GeoBench75%—
VPCT40%—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1462—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 54.5 (#45), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.5 (#169)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Non-English14381312
LMArena Chinese14701331
LMArena French14711301
LMArena German14491286
LMArena Japanese14151292
LMArena Korean14241298
LMArena Russian14481320
LMArena Spanish14551310

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 77.7 (#20), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.8 (#180)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Instruction Following14781297
IFEval—83.7%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 46.4 (#21), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.7 (#164)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Longer Query14801308
CL-bench21.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.5 leads

Claude Opus 4.5: 68.2 (#28), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.5 (#167)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Text14511319
LMArena Creative Writing14451333
LMArena Multi-Turn14661296
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1687—
WildBench—81.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.5 better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?

Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 50.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.5 or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.4 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.5 and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?

28 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.5 has 69 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.

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