Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 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 5 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 reasoning, where Claude Opus 5 leads 77.2 to 12.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 90.4% for Claude Opus 5 and 0.8% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).

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Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) specifications
Claude Opus 5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index67.832.1
Released2026-07-242024-02-15
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked5745

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
WeirdML91.8%22.2%
LMArena Coding15341294
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1691—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—43.8%
BigCodeBench Complete—57.5%
CadEval—34%
ALE-Bench2,165—
HumanEval+—79.3%
MBPP+—74.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
BALROG63.4%21%
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
TheAgentCompany—3.4%
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
Cybench—7.5%
PostTrainBench35%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
ARC-AGI-290.4%0.8%
SimpleBench80.6%27.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts15261296
DTBench97.9%59%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.78131.73
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EBR-Bench45.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
BIG-Bench Hard—89.2%
ForecastBench—58.4

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%23.1%
LMArena Math15311315
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
ProofBench99%—
Omni-MATH—36.4%
MATH Level 5—70.4%

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
GPQA Diamond93.9%57.2%
LMArena Expert15571279
Humanity's Last Exam—4.6%
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—13.5%
GPQA (HELM)—53.4%
MMLU—86.9%

Multimodal Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Vision13191161
Video-MME—75%
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Non-English15011312
LMArena Chinese15741331
LMArena French15191302
LMArena German15241286
LMArena Japanese15161292
LMArena Korean15211298
LMArena Russian15071320
LMArena Spanish15191311

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Instruction Following15171297
IFEval—83.7%

Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Longer Query15151308

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Text15071319
LMArena Creative Writing14911333
LMArena Multi-Turn14991296
EQ-Bench Creative Writing2133—
WildBench—81.3%
EQ-Bench 41385—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.

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