Model comparison
Claude Opus 4 vs Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)
Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 9 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) in 1 category; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4 leads 42.0 to 22.1.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 64.4% for Claude Opus 4 and 16.3% for Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024).
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 43.1 | 33.2 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2024-05-14 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | — |
| Max output | 32K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $15 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $75 | — |
| Results tracked | 56 | 42 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 34.4 (#236)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 43.7% | 24.9% |
| LMArena Coding | 1442 | 1261 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 70.7% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 67.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 72% | — |
| GSO | 6.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.5% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 55.1% |
| AlgoTune | 1.33 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 75.6% |
| MBPP+ | — | 67.5% |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.6 (#102)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 38% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.8% | — |
| BALROG | — | 14.6% |
| LMArena Search | 1127 | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 63.9% | — |
Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 21.7 (#215)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1399 | 1257 |
| DTBench | 81.6% | 53.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 142.67 | 129.36 |
| ForecastBench | 61.1 | 53.9 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 8.6% | — |
| SimpleBench | 58.8% | — |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 74.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 35.7% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 5.6% | — |
| LMCA | 37.4% | — |
| PIQA | — | 87.5% |
Math Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 22.1 (#281)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 64.4% | 16.3% |
| Omni-MATH | 61.6% | 30.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1390 | 1269 |
| MATH Level 5 | 85% | 61.9% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | 0% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | — |
| GSM8K | — | 82.4% |
Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 26.2 (#260)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | 47.3% |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.5% | 67.8% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.8% | 43.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1386 | 1233 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 10.7% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.9% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12% | — |
| BoolQ | — | 85.8% |
| MMLU | — | 77.9% |
Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) leads
Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 36.0 (#81)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1192 | 1141 |
| GeoBench | 49% | 76% |
| Video-MME | — | 70.3% |
| VPCT | 38% | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 42.9 (#189)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1362 | 1278 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1386 | 1295 |
| LMArena French | 1372 | 1258 |
| LMArena German | 1391 | 1262 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1331 | 1252 |
| LMArena Korean | 1321 | 1221 |
| LMArena Russian | 1392 | 1288 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1389 | 1243 |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 66.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 91.8% | 83.1% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1406 | 1258 |
Long Context Too close to call
Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 39.0 (#187)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1422 | 1284 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024): 48.7 (#196)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1377 | 1287 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1387 | 1285 |
| WildBench | 85.2% | 79.2% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1396 | 1253 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.6% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1580 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4 better than Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024)?
Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 43.1 to 33.2 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Opus 4 or Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) better for coding?
Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 34.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) share?
32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash (May 2024) has 42.