# Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

> Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-7-sonnet-vs-gemini-3-1-pro-preview
- Last updated: 2026-10-12
- Shared benchmarks: 33

## Summary

- They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.7 Sonnet scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview in 9 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads 71.7 to 18.6.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 0.9% for Claude 3.7 Sonnet and 77.1% for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 56.7 |
| Rank | 164 | 23 |
| Context | — | 1.05M |
| Input $/M | — | $2 |
| Output $/M | — | $12 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 40.6 (#136)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 42.5 (#99)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 61% | 75.6% |
| GSO | 3.8% | 22.6% |
| LMArena Coding | 1361 | 1484 |
| DeepSWE | — | 11.7% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 52.8% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 64.9% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1447 |
| SciCode | — | 58.9% |
| WeirdML | — | 72.1% |
| LiveBench Coding | 74.5% | — |
| MirrorCode | — | 8.9% |
| CadEval | 54% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,161 |
| AlgoTune | — | 2.02 |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 34.1 (#50)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.7 (#34)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| DeepResearch Bench | 43.6% | 47.8% |
| METR Time Horizons | 60% | 77% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 80.2% |
| APEX-Agents | — | 35.3% |
| TheAgentCompany | 30.9% | — |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 26% |
| Cybench | 20% | — |
| OSWorld | 35.8% | — |
| PostTrainBench | — | 22% |
| BALROG | — | 57% |
| ExploitBench | — | 26.1% |
| GBAEval | — | 0.8% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 17% |
| LMArena Search | — | 1211 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 3,774 |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 18.6 (#277)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.7 (#12)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 0.9% | 77.1% |
| SimpleBench | 46.4% | 79.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 28.6% | 98% |
| EnigmaEval | 4.2% | 36.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1333 | 1485 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 141.16 | 154.77 |
| ForecastBench | 61.8 | 59 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 97.4% |
| CritPt | — | 17.7% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 55% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 79.4% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 14.3% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 87.8% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 34% |
| DTBench | — | 97.1% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 74% | — |
| LMCA | — | 53.8% |
| LiveBench | 76.1% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 37.5 (#153)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 62.1 (#34)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 57.8% | 95.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1337 | 1485 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.1% | 36.9% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 59.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 26.8% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 86.5% |
| ProofBench | — | 26% |
| Omni-MATH | 33% | — |
| LiveBench Math | 79% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 91.2% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | — | 16.7% |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 39.8 (#130)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.8 (#3)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 79.7% | 94.4% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 8% | 46.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1321 | 1485 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 73.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 78.4% | — |
| Confabulations | 14.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | — | 10.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.8% | — |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 33.7 (#95)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.9 (#69)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1169 | 1296 |
| GeoBench | 68% | — |
| VPCT | 39% | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 26.5% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 26.7% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1444 |
| SpatialViz-Bench | 33.9% | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 44.1 (#179)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 57.0 (#12)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1296 | 1477 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1299 | 1529 |
| LMArena French | 1303 | 1487 |
| LMArena German | 1301 | 1491 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1267 | 1493 |
| LMArena Korean | 1249 | 1455 |
| LMArena Russian | 1311 | 1498 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1298 | 1479 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 72.9 (#125)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 77.0 (#32)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1352 | 1466 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 81.3% | — |
| IFEval | 83.4% | — |

## Long Context

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 50.3 (#10)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 47.4 (#18)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1373 | 1483 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 83.3% | — |
| CL-bench | — | 20.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 16.9% |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3.7 Sonnet: 54.4 (#150)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 66.1 (#37)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.7 Sonnet | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1314 | 1481 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1332 | 1482 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1412 | 1491 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1339 | 1488 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 81.1% | — |
| WildBench | 81.4% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1142 |
| LiveBench Language | 59.9% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet better than Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 39.5 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview better for coding?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview scores higher on coding benchmarks: 42.5 versus 40.6 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.7 Sonnet has 58 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has 71.