Model comparison
Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.
GoogleSummary
- They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher in 6 categories and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 0 categories; 6 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads 88.7 to 24.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 100% for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and 23.1% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).
Side by side
| Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 60.5 | 31.9 |
| Released | 2026-09-28 | 2024-02-15 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1M | — |
| Max output | 128K | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | $2 | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | $10 | — |
| Results tracked | 16 | 45 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 65.5 (#6), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 33.8 (#239)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| FrontierCode | 52.1% | — |
| CursorBench | 55.5% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1699 | — |
| FrontierSWE | 61.9% | — |
| SciCode | 61% | — |
| WeirdML | — | 22.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1294 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.5% |
| CadEval | — | 34% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,819 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 79.3% |
| MBPP+ | — | 74.6% |
Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 44.9 (#14), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.8 (#137)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 75.5% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 3.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
| BALROG | — | 21% |
Reasoning Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 52.4 (#29), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#332)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.1% |
| CritPt | 31.4% | — |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1296 |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 65% | — |
| DTBench | — | 59% |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 89.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | — | 131.73 |
| ForecastBench | — | 58.4 |
Math Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 88.7 (#4), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 24.4 (#260)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 100% | 23.1% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 88.8% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 80.5% | — |
| ProofBench | 100% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 36.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1315 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 70.4% |
Knowledge Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 66.0 (#11), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.3 (#228)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 95.6% | 57.2% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 46.5% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 13.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 53.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1279 |
| MMLU | — | 86.9% |
Multimodal Claude Sonnet 5.5 leads
Claude Sonnet 5.5: 53.2 (#5), Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.2 (#72)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1161 |
| Video-MME | — | 75% |
| Furniture Assembly | 75% | — |
Multilingual Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.5 (#169)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1312 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1331 |
| LMArena French | — | 1301 |
| LMArena German | — | 1286 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1292 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1320 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1310 |
Instruction Following Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.8 (#180)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 83.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1297 |
Long Context Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.7 (#164)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1308 |
Writing & Preference Not comparable
Claude Sonnet 5.5: —, Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.5 (#167)
| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1319 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1333 |
| WildBench | — | 81.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1296 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude Sonnet 5.5 or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?
Claude Sonnet 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 65.5 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?
2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5.5 has 16 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.