Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

32.1

Rank #261 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 10 categories and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 25.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.3% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 23.1% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index60.732.1
Released2026-05-282024-02-15
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6545

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
WeirdML82.9%22.2%
LMArena Coding14901294
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
CadEval—34%
ALE-Bench1,564—
HumanEval+—79.3%
MBPP+—74.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
TheAgentCompany—3.4%
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
Cybench—7.5%
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
BALROG—21%
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
ARC-AGI-272.1%0.8%
SimpleBench64.8%27.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14821296
DTBench94.9%59%
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21131.73
ForecastBench59.958.4
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
BIG-Bench Hard—89.2%

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%23.1%
LMArena Math14871315
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)80%—
FrontierMath Tier 456.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions91.8%—
ProofBench69%—
Omni-MATH—36.4%
MATH Level 5—70.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)47.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)31.3%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
GPQA Diamond91%57.2%
LMArena Expert15021279
Humanity's Last Exam—4.6%
SimpleQA Verified53%—
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—13.5%
GPQA (HELM)—53.4%
MMLU—86.9%

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Vision12941161
Video-MME—75%
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Non-English14501312
LMArena Chinese15071331
LMArena French14811302
LMArena German14721286
LMArena Japanese14401292
LMArena Korean14321298
LMArena Russian14741320
LMArena Spanish14661311

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Instruction Following14761297
IFEval—83.7%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Longer Query14831308

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Text14611319
LMArena Creative Writing14541333
LMArena Multi-Turn14761296
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
WildBench—81.3%
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.

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