Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 36 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 36 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 2 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude Sonnet 4 leads 38.5 to 17.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 71.1% for Claude Sonnet 4 and 23.1% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 40.8 | 32.1 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2024-02-15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | — |
| Max output | 64K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $3 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $15 | — |
| Results tracked | 58 | 45 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 43.5 (#88), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 46.1% | 22.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1414 | 1294 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 64.9% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 61.3% | — |
| SciCode | 40% | — |
| GSO | 4.9% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.5% |
| CadEval | — | 34% |
| ALE-Bench | 655.35 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 79.3% |
| MBPP+ | — | 74.6% |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 38.5 (#31), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 33.1% | 3.4% |
| Cybench | 35% | 7.5% |
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.6% | — |
| OSWorld | 43.9% | — |
| BALROG | — | 21% |
| METR Time Horizons | 62% | — |
Reasoning Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 22.9 (#187), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 5.9% | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | 45.5% | 27.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1372 | 1296 |
| DTBench | 77.1% | 59% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.69 | 131.73 |
| ForecastBench | 60.2 | 58.4 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 73% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 40% | — |
| CritPt | 0.3% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 3.1% | — |
| LMCA | 29% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 89.2% |
Math Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 43.3 (#80), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 71.1% | 23.1% |
| Omni-MATH | 60.2% | 36.4% |
| LMArena Math | 1375 | 1315 |
| MATH Level 5 | 84.4% | 70.4% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |
Knowledge Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 41.8 (#108), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.2% | 57.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 7.8% | 4.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | 84.3% | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | 13.2% | 13.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.6% | 53.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1372 | 1279 |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 10.3% | — |
| MMLU | — | 86.9% |
Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 26.2 (#121), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1191 | 1161 |
| Video-MME | — | 75% |
| GeoBench | 37% | — |
| VPCT | 34% | — |
| MindCube | 44.8% | — |
Multilingual Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 46.7 (#156), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1333 | 1312 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1350 | 1331 |
| LMArena French | 1363 | 1302 |
| LMArena German | 1331 | 1286 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1302 | 1292 |
| LMArena Korean | 1291 | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | 1355 | 1320 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1357 | 1311 |
Instruction Following Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 71.7 (#145), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | 84% | 83.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1376 | 1297 |
Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 33.7 (#259), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1398 | 1308 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 46.9% | — |
Writing & Preference Claude Sonnet 4 leads
Claude Sonnet 4: 57.1 (#132), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 4 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1351 | 1319 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1345 | 1333 |
| WildBench | 83.8% | 81.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1376 | 1296 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1483 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 4 better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?
Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger model overall, scoring 40.8 to 32.1 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Sonnet 4 or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.5 versus 34.2 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4 and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?
36 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4 has 58 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.