# Claude 2.1 vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)

> Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-1-vs-gemini-1-5-pro
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 7

## Summary

- They share 7 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2.1 scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 3 categories; 4 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 25.8 to 10.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is GPQA Diamond: 33% for Claude 2.1 and 57.2% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 25.2 | 32.1 |
| Rank | 345 | 261 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 2.1: 26.2 (#327)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 34.2 (#241)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 7.1% | 22.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.8% |
| LMArena Coding | — | 1294 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.5% |
| CadEval | — | 34% |
| HumanEval+ | — | 79.3% |
| MBPP+ | — | 74.6% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 2.1: —
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.9 (#145)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | — | 3.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
| BALROG | — | 21% |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2.1: 21.4 (#221)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#338)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51% | 59% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 119.27 | 131.73 |
| ForecastBench | 54.2 | 58.4 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| SimpleBench | — | 27.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1296 |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 89.2% |

## Math

- Claude 2.1: 10.2 (#315)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 25.8 (#266)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.9% | 23.1% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 36.4% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1315 |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 70.4% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2.1: 15.4 (#292)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.4 (#239)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 33% | 57.2% |
| MMLU | 73.5% | 86.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.6% |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 13.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 53.4% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1279 |

## Multimodal

- Claude 2.1: —
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.8 (#77)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1161 |
| Video-MME | — | 75% |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2.1: —
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.3 (#174)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1312 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1331 |
| LMArena French | — | 1302 |
| LMArena German | — | 1286 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1292 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1320 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1311 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2.1: —
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.6 (#185)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| IFEval | — | 83.7% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1297 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2.1: —
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.8 (#169)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1308 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2.1: —
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.4 (#172)

| Benchmark | Claude 2.1 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1319 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1333 |
| WildBench | — | 81.3% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1296 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2.1 better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 32.1 to 25.2 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 2.1 or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 34.2 versus 26.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2.1 and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?

7 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2.1 has 7 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.