Noometry

Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 29 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 10 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 64.7 to 15.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 72.1% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 1.3% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index60.735.1
Released2026-05-282024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6554

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
WeirdML82.9%25.8%
LMArena Coding14901350
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—13.5%
Aider Polyglot—38.2%
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.9%
LiveBench Coding—63.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—59.9%
CadEval—30%
ALE-Bench1,564—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
TheAgentCompany—11.4%
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ARC-AGI-272.1%1.3%
SimpleBench64.8%31.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%37.8%
EnigmaEval23.5%1.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts14821346
DTBench94.9%63.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21135.36
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
LiveBench Reasoning—78.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—69.4%
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench59.9—
LiveBench—66.9%

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%57.8%
LMArena Math14871352
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)47.2%1.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)80%—
FrontierMath Tier 456.1%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions91.8%—
ProofBench69%—
Omni-MATH—45.9%
LiveBench Math—75.8%
MATH Level 5—82.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)31.3%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
GPQA Diamond91%64.1%
LMArena Expert15021339
Humanity's Last Exam—6.6%
SimpleQA Verified53%—
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—12.4%
GPQA (HELM)—55.6%
MMLU—79.7%

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Vision12941158
GeoBench—77%
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Non-English14501342
LMArena Chinese15071373
LMArena French14811391
LMArena German14721353
LMArena Japanese14401294
LMArena Korean14321313
LMArena Russian14741351
LMArena Spanish14661363

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Instruction Following14761336
LiveBench Instruction Following—85.8%
IFEval—84.1%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Longer Query14831344
Fiction.LiveBench—61.1%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Text14611354
LMArena Creative Writing14541340
EQ-Bench Creative Writing18401128
LMArena Multi-Turn14761350
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.8%
WildBench—80%
EQ-Bench 41281—
LiveBench Language—51.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.

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