Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

42.9

Rank #93 Confirmed

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B Google

29.7

Rank #292 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 9 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4 leads 43.9 to 16.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 64.4% for Claude Opus 4 and 4.6% for Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B specifications
Claude Opus 4Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index42.929.7
Released2025-05-222024-10-03
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5621

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 34.9 (#221)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Coding14421218
SWE-bench Verified70.7%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
GSO6.9%—
WeirdML43.7%—
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 19.2 (#242)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Hard Prompts13991210
DTBench81.6%50%
ARC-AGI-28.6%—
SimpleBench58.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
ARC-AGI-135.7%—
CritPt0.3%—
EnigmaEval5.6%—
LMCA37.4%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67—
ForecastBench61.1—

Math Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 40.2 (#80), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 13.3 (#296)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%4.6%
LMArena Math13911207
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#285)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
GPQA Diamond76.3%33%
LMArena Expert13841185
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 27.6 (#110)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Vision11921044
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.6 (#224)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Non-English13621215
LMArena Chinese13861231
LMArena French13701233
LMArena German13911206
LMArena Japanese13321150
LMArena Korean13181140
LMArena Russian13921236
LMArena Spanish13881212

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 63.1 (#231)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Instruction Following14061199
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 36.9 (#220)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Longer Query14221219
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85), Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 43.0 (#227)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
LMArena Text13771226
LMArena Creative Writing13861218
LMArena Multi-Turn13961185
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B?

Claude Opus 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.9 to 29.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B better for coding?

Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.8 versus 34.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B share?

21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21.

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