# Claude Sonnet 5 vs Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)

> Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

- Canonical page: https://noometry.com/compare/claude-sonnet-5-vs-gemini-1-5-pro
- Last updated: 2026-10-10
- Shared benchmarks: 25

## Summary

- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher in 10 categories and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) in 0 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Sonnet 5 leads 66.1 to 24.4.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 94.7% for Claude Sonnet 5 and 23.1% for Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024).

## Snapshot

| | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Google |
| Noometry Index | 54.5 | 31.9 |
| Rank | 26 | 253 |
| Context | 1M | — |
| Input $/M | $2 | — |
| Output $/M | $10 | — |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |

## Coding

- Claude Sonnet 5: 55.5 (#20)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 33.8 (#239)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 68.8% | 22.2% |
| LMArena Coding | 1483 | 1294 |
| DeepSWE | 53.8% | — |
| FrontierCode | 42.7% | — |
| CursorBench | 34.1% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | 1540 | — |
| SciCode | 53.6% | — |
| GSO | 37.3% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | — | 43.8% |
| BigCodeBench Complete | — | 57.5% |
| CadEval | — | 34% |
| ALE-Bench | 1,463 | — |
| HumanEval+ | — | 79.3% |
| MBPP+ | — | 74.6% |

## Agentic & Tool Use

- Claude Sonnet 5: 42.7 (#16)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 17.8 (#137)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | 54.5% | — |
| TheAgentCompany | — | 3.4% |
| Cybench | — | 7.5% |
| BALROG | — | 21% |
| GBAEval | 65.3% | — |
| LMArena Search | 1194 | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 6,378 | — |

## Reasoning

- Claude Sonnet 5: 48.2 (#37)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 12.3 (#332)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| SimpleBench | 60.6% | 27.1% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1461 | 1296 |
| DTBench | 92.5% | 59% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 156.34 | 131.73 |
| ForecastBench | 61.1 | 58.4 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 0.8% |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 75.1% | — |
| CritPt | 16.9% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 35% | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | 35% | — |
| LMCA | 50% | — |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 60% | — |
| Bench to the Future 3 | 0.14 | — |
| BIG-Bench Hard | — | 89.2% |

## Math

- Claude Sonnet 5: 66.1 (#21)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 24.4 (#260)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 94.7% | 23.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1467 | 1315 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | 65.6% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | 29.3% | — |
| ProofBench | 77% | — |
| Omni-MATH | — | 36.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | — | 70.4% |

## Knowledge

- Claude Sonnet 5: 55.7 (#42)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 29.3 (#228)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% | 57.2% |
| LMArena Expert | 1491 | 1279 |
| Humanity's Last Exam | — | 4.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | 33.7% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | — | 73.7% |
| Confabulations | — | 13.5% |
| GPQA (HELM) | — | 53.4% |
| MMLU | — | 86.9% |

## Multimodal

- Claude Sonnet 5: 42.4 (#26)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 36.2 (#72)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1275 | 1161 |
| Video-MME | — | 75% |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 24.9% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1466 | — |

## Multilingual

- Claude Sonnet 5: 54.0 (#55)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 45.5 (#169)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1431 | 1312 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1475 | 1331 |
| LMArena French | 1457 | 1301 |
| LMArena German | 1448 | 1286 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1422 | 1292 |
| LMArena Korean | 1411 | 1298 |
| LMArena Russian | 1452 | 1320 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1436 | 1310 |

## Instruction Following

- Claude Sonnet 5: 76.6 (#39)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 68.8 (#180)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1453 | 1297 |
| IFEval | — | 83.7% |

## Long Context

- Claude Sonnet 5: 44.8 (#53)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 39.7 (#164)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1464 | 1308 |

## Writing & Preference

- Claude Sonnet 5: 69.4 (#24)
- Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024): 52.5 (#167)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1443 | 1319 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1416 | 1333 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1454 | 1296 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1794 | — |
| WildBench | — | 81.3% |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1236 | — |

## FAQ

### Is Claude Sonnet 5 better than Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)?

Claude Sonnet 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.5 to 31.9 on the Noometry Index.

### Is Claude Sonnet 5 or Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) better for coding?

Claude Sonnet 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 55.5 versus 33.8 in the Noometry coding category.

### How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 5 has 51 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) has 45.