# Claude 3 Opus vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)

> Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-3-opus-vs-gemini-1-5-pro
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 33

## Summary

- They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Opus scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 8 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads 24.4 to 13.9.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus and 70.4% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).

## Snapshot

| | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 29.3 | 31.9 |
| Rank | 300 | 253 |
| Context | — | — |
| Input $/M | — | — |
| Output $/M | — | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude 3 Opus: 32.4 (#261)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 33.8 (#239)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 19.2% | 22.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 45.5% | 43.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1264 | 1294 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 57.4% | 57.5% |
| HumanEval+ | 77.4% | 79.3% |
| MBPP+ | 73.3% | 74.6% |
| LiveBench Coding | 38.6% | — |
| CadEval | — | 34% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.3 (#110)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.8 (#137)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | 10% | 7.5% |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 3.4% |
| BALROG | — | 21% |
| METR Time Horizons | 29.5% | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude 3 Opus: 14.2 (#318)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#332)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 23.5% | 27.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1246 | 1296 |
| DTBench | 61.6% | 59% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 126.91 | 131.73 |
| ForecastBench | 58.4 | 58.4 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| Chess Puzzles | 5% | — |
| EnigmaEval | 0.8% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | 40.6% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | 57.9% | — |
| LMCA | 17% | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 89.2% |
| LiveBench | 49.2% | — |
| WinoGrande | 88.5% | — |

## Math

- Claude 3 Opus: 13.9 (#293)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 24.4 (#260)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 4.7% | 23.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1273 | 1315 |
| MATH Level 5 | 37.5% | 70.4% |
| Omni-MATH | — | 36.4% |
| LiveBench Math | 43.6% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#262)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.3 (#228)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 47.2% | 57.2% |
| Confabulations | 22.7% | 13.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1223 | 1279 |
| MMLU | 84.6% | 86.9% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 12.6% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 53.4% |

## Multimodal

- Claude 3 Opus: 26.6 (#112)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.2 (#72)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1023 | 1161 |
| Video-MME | — | 75% |

## Multilingual

- Claude 3 Opus: 41.6 (#202)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.5 (#169)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1258 | 1312 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1248 | 1331 |
| LMArena French | 1274 | 1301 |
| LMArena German | 1258 | 1286 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1204 | 1292 |
| LMArena Korean | 1187 | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | 1280 | 1320 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1246 | 1310 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude 3 Opus: 64.3 (#223)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.8 (#180)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1248 | 1297 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | 63.9% | — |
| IFEval | — | 83.7% |

## Long Context

- Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#197)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.7 (#164)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1259 | 1308 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude 3 Opus: 47.4 (#208)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.5 (#167)

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1262 | 1319 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1235 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1275 | 1296 |
| WildBench | — | 81.3% |
| LiveBench Language | 50.4% | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude 3 Opus better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) is the stronger model overall, scoring 31.9 to 29.3 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude 3 Opus or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) scores higher on coding benchmarks: 33.8 versus 32.4 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Opus has 46 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.