Model comparison

Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 26 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 5 Anthropic

67.8

Rank #4 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 26 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 5 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 5 leads 77.2 to 15.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 90.4% for Claude Opus 5 and 1.3% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).

Side by side

Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) specifications
Claude Opus 5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index67.835.1
Released2026-07-242024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked5754

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
WeirdML91.8%25.8%
LMArena Coding15341350
DeepSWE73.6%—
FrontierCode53.4%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—13.5%
Aider Polyglot—38.2%
CursorBench46.6%—
LMArena WebDev1691—
FrontierSWE52%—
SciCode56.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.9%
LiveBench Coding—63.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—59.9%
CadEval—30%
ALE-Bench2,165—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
APEX-Agents65.8%—
OSWorld 2.031.4%—
TheAgentCompany—11.4%
τ²-bench Banking48.7%—
PostTrainBench35%—
BALROG63.4%—
GBAEval79.6%—
GDP.pdf24%—
Vending-Bench 211,182—

Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ARC-AGI-290.4%1.3%
SimpleBench80.6%31.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts15261346
DTBench97.9%63.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index162.78135.36
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
NYT Connections (extended)94.3%—
ARC-AGI-197.5%—
CritPt29.1%—
Chess Puzzles42%—
EnigmaEval—1.1%
EBR-Bench45.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning—78.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles59%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—69.4%
LMCA64.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.12—
LiveBench—66.9%

Math Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.9%57.8%
LMArena Math15311352
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)85.6%—
FrontierMath Tier 473.2%—
ProofBench99%—
Omni-MATH—45.9%
LiveBench Math—75.8%
MATH Level 5—82.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—1.7%

Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
GPQA Diamond93.9%64.1%
LMArena Expert15571339
Humanity's Last Exam—6.6%
SimpleQA Verified59.9%—
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—12.4%
GPQA (HELM)—55.6%
MMLU—79.7%

Multimodal Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Vision13191158
GeoBench—77%
Blueprint-Bench 230.4%—
Furniture Assembly60.8%—
LMArena Document1516—

Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Non-English15011342
LMArena Chinese15741373
LMArena French15191391
LMArena German15241353
LMArena Japanese15161294
LMArena Korean15211313
LMArena Russian15071351
LMArena Spanish15191363

Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Instruction Following15171336
LiveBench Instruction Following—85.8%
IFEval—84.1%

Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Longer Query15151344
Fiction.LiveBench—61.1%

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads

Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Text15071354
LMArena Creative Writing14911340
EQ-Bench Creative Writing21331128
LMArena Multi-Turn14991350
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.8%
WildBench—80%
EQ-Bench 41385—
LiveBench Language—51.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 5 better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 5 or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

26 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 5 has 57 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.

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