Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 2.0 Pro

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 3 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Pro Google

39.1

Rank #173 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 7 categories and Gemini 2.0 Pro in 0 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 22.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 90.5% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 65.7% for Gemini 2.0 Pro.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 2.0 Pro specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Pro
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index58.239.1
Released2026-02-042025-02-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6814

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 37.8 (#187)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Pro
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
Aider Polyglot—35.6%
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
LiveBench Coding—63.5%
LMArena Coding1536—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Gemini 2.0 Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Pro
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 22.3 (#198)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Pro
EnigmaEval7.6%0.7%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24135.06
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning—60.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts1527—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—68%
LMCA55.8%—
ForecastBench60—
LiveBench—65.1%

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 39.7 (#100)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 36.5 (#167)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Pro
GPQA Diamond90.5%65.7%
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Confabulations—18.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Gemini 2.0 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Pro
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Gemini 2.0 Pro: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Pro
LMArena Non-English1489—
LMArena Chinese1551—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1510—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 75.5 (#59)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Pro
LiveBench Instruction Following—83.4%
LMArena Instruction Following1523—

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 29.2 (#292)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Pro
Fiction.LiveBench—41.7%
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Gemini 2.0 Pro: 52.7 (#165)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Pro
LMArena Text1503—
LMArena Creative Writing1505—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—
LMArena Multi-Turn1513—
LiveBench Language—44.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Gemini 2.0 Pro?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 39.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Gemini 2.0 Pro better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 37.8 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 2.0 Pro share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Pro has 14.

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