# Claude 2 vs Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

> Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-2-vs-gemini-1-5-flash-8b
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 3

## Summary

- They share 3 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B in 1 category; 2 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B leads 14.2 to 9.3.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 2 | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 25.0 | 29.9 |
| Rank | 346 | 301 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 2: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 35.5 (#225)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | — | 1218 |
| HumanEval+ | 61.6% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 2: 21.7 (#216)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 20.0 (#244)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| DTBench | 51.9% | 50% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | — | 1209 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 120.13 | — |

## Math

- Claude 2: 9.3 (#320)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 14.2 (#302)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 2.5% | 4.6% |
| LMArena Math | — | 1207 |
| MATH Level 5 | 11.7% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 2: 16.9 (#287)
- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 16.0 (#289)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 34.7% | 33% |
| LMArena Expert | — | 1185 |
| MMLU | 78.5% | — |
| TriviaQA | 87.5% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 2: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 28.2 (#115)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | — | 1044 |

## Multilingual

- Claude 2: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 38.5 (#229)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | — | 1215 |
| LMArena Chinese | — | 1231 |
| LMArena French | — | 1234 |
| LMArena German | — | 1206 |
| LMArena Japanese | — | 1150 |
| LMArena Korean | — | 1140 |
| LMArena Russian | — | 1236 |
| LMArena Spanish | — | 1212 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 2: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 62.8 (#236)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | — | 1199 |

## Long Context

- Claude 2: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 37.0 (#225)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | — | 1219 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 2: —
- Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B: 42.8 (#232)

| Benchmark | Claude 2 | Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | — | 1226 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | — | 1218 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | — | 1185 |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 2 better than Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B?

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.9 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B share?

3 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B has 21.