# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

> Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-opus-4-8-vs-gemini-2-0-flash
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 29

## Summary

- They share 29 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 10 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 64.6 to 15.2.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 72.1% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 1.3% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).

## Snapshot

| | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 60.7 | 34.8 |
| Rank | 9 | 223 |
| Context | 1M | — |
| Input $/M | $5 | — |
| Output $/M | $25 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude Opus 4.8: 60.2 (#9)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 82.9% | 25.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1491 | 1351 |
| DeepSWE | 59% | — |
| FrontierCode | 46.5% | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | — | 13.5% |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 38.2% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1556 | — |
| SciCode | 53.5% | — |
| GSO | 47.1% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 63.4% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 59.9% |
| CadEval | — | 30% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,564 | — |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#10)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 48.9% | — |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 20.6% | — |
| Remote Labor Index | 8.3% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 11.4% |
| τ²-bench Banking | 39.7% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 50.2% | — |
| PostTrainBench | 33.8% | — |
| GBAEval | 70.9% | — |
| GDP.pdf | 24% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1204 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 5,787 | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Opus 4.8: 64.6 (#14)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 72.1% | 1.3% |
| SimpleBench | 64.8% | 31.1% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 88.8% | 37.8% |
| EnigmaEval | 23.5% | 1.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1481 | 1346 |
| DTBench | 94.9% | 63.2% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 158.3 | 135.36 |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 91.1% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 92.5% | — |
| CritPt | 20.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 34% | — |
| EBR-Bench | 28.6% | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 78.2% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 36% | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 69.4% |
| LMCA | 57.5% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 87.5% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | — |
| ForecastBench | 59.9 | — |
| LiveBench | — | 66.9% |

## Math

- Claude Opus 4.8: 78.2 (#11)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 98.3% | 57.8% |
| LMArena Math | 1487 | 1351 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 47.2% | 1.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 80% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 56.1% | — |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | 91.8% | — |
| ProofBench | 69% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 45.9% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 75.8% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 82.2% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 31.3% | — |

## Knowledge

- Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#26)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 91% | 64.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1501 | 1340 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 6.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 53% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 12.4% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 55.6% |
| MMLU | — | 79.7% |

## Multimodal

- Claude Opus 4.8: 43.2 (#20)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1295 | 1158 |
| GeoBench | — | 77% |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 14.5% | — |
| Furniture Assembly | 42.5% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1475 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Opus 4.8: 55.4 (#31)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1450 | 1342 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1509 | 1373 |
| LMArena French | 1482 | 1390 |
| LMArena German | 1470 | 1354 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1440 | 1293 |
| LMArena Korean | 1432 | 1314 |
| LMArena Russian | 1476 | 1351 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1470 | 1363 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Opus 4.8: 77.6 (#22)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1476 | 1336 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 85.8% |
| IFEval | — | 84.1% |

## Long Context

- Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#37)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1482 | 1345 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 61.1% |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Opus 4.8: 72.1 (#17)
- Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1460 | 1354 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1453 | 1340 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1840 | 1128 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1476 | 1350 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | — | 73.8% |
| WildBench | — | 80% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1281 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 51.3% |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 34.8 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 60.2 versus 28.2 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

29 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.