# Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite

> Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-5-sonnet-vs-gemini-2-0-flash-lite
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 32

## Summary

- They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 3 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite in 6 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads 34.1 to 19.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is LiveBench Coding: 67.1% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 47.1% for Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 34.6 | 37.8 |
| Rank | 231 | 194 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 37.9 (#185)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Coding | 67.1% | 47.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1342 | 1322 |
| Aider Polyglot | 51.6% | — |
| GSO | 4.6% | — |
| WeirdML | 40% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 46.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 58.6% | — |
| CadEval | 48% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 81.7% | — |
| MBPP+ | 74.3% | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: —

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| TheAgentCompany | 24% | — |
| Cybench | 17.5% | — |
| BALROG | 32.6% | — |
| METR Time Horizons | 45.2% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 22.0 (#210)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Reasoning | 56.7% | 50.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1305 | 1324 |
| DTBench | 67.8% | 52.5% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 55% | 65.5% |
| ForecastBench | 60.7 | 57.1 |
| LiveBench | 59% | 54.3% |
| SimpleBench | 41.4% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 133.55 | — |

## Math

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 34.1 (#196)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Omni-MATH | 27.6% | 37.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 52.3% | 58.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1307 | 1309 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 8.5% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 56.9% | — |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 2.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 0% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 35.0 (#189)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | 72% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 56.5% | 50% |
| LMArena Expert | 1265 | 1305 |
| GPQA Diamond | 55.3% | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 4.1% | — |
| Confabulations | 19.9% | — |
| MMLU | 87.3% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 31.2 (#109)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1125 | 1100 |
| Video-MME | 60% | — |
| GeoBench | 62% | — |
| VPCT | 33% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 46.0 (#161)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1283 | 1323 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1272 | 1339 |
| LMArena French | 1305 | 1347 |
| LMArena German | 1297 | 1306 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1234 | 1301 |
| LMArena Korean | 1200 | 1325 |
| LMArena Russian | 1306 | 1328 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1290 | 1313 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 70.4 (#163)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 69.3% | 78.3% |
| IFEval | 85.5% | 82.4% |
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1297 | 1305 |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 40.1 (#160)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1311 | 1320 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 51.7 (#177)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Sonnet | Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1298 | 1330 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1292 | 1319 |
| WildBench | 79.2% | 79% |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1326 | 1307 |
| LiveBench Language | 53.8% | 34.3% |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 80.3% | — |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1451 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is the stronger model overall, scoring 37.8 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.0 versus 37.9 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has 32.