Model comparison

Claude 2 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 4 shared benchmarks.

Claude 2 Anthropic

25.0

Rank #346 Reported

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview Google

56.7

Rank #23 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 4 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 2 scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads 71.8 to 16.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 2.5% for Claude 2 and 95.6% for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.

Side by side

Claude 2 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview specifications
Claude 2Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index25.056.7
Released2023-07-112026-02-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1.05M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$2
Output $ / M tokens—$12
Results tracked871

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 42.5 (#99)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
SWE-bench Verified—75.6%
DeepSWE—11.7%
LMArena WebDev—1447
SciCode—58.9%
GSO—22.6%
WeirdML—72.1%
LMArena Coding—1484
MirrorCode—8.9%
ALE-Bench—1,161
AlgoTune—2.02
HumanEval+61.6%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.7 (#34)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Terminal-Bench—80.2%
APEX-Agents—35.3%
τ²-bench Banking—26%
DeepResearch Bench—47.8%
PostTrainBench—22%
BALROG—57%
ExploitBench—26.1%
GBAEval—0.8%
GDP.pdf—17%
LMArena Search—1211
METR Time Horizons—77%
Vending-Bench 2—3,774

Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Claude 2: 21.7 (#216), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.7 (#12)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
DTBench51.9%97.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index120.13154.77
ARC-AGI-2—77.1%
SimpleBench—79.6%
NYT Connections (extended)—97.4%
ARC-AGI-1—98%
CritPt—17.7%
Chess Puzzles—55%
EnigmaEval—36.8%
Thematic Generalization—79.4%
EBR-Bench—14.3%
LMArena Hard Prompts—1485
Mystery Game Puzzles—34%
LMCA—53.8%
ForecastBench—59

Math Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Claude 2: 9.3 (#320), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 62.1 (#34)

Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads

Claude 2: 16.9 (#287), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.8 (#3)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPQA Diamond34.7%94.4%
Humanity's Last Exam—46.4%
SimpleQA Verified—73.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate—10.4%
LMArena Expert—1485
MMLU78.5%—
TriviaQA87.5%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.9 (#69)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Vision—1296
Blueprint-Bench 2—26.5%
Furniture Assembly—26.7%
LMArena Document—1444

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 57.0 (#12)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Non-English—1477
LMArena Chinese—1529
LMArena French—1487
LMArena German—1491
LMArena Japanese—1493
LMArena Korean—1455
LMArena Russian—1498
LMArena Spanish—1479

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 77.0 (#32)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Instruction Following—1466

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 47.4 (#18)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
CL-bench—20.8%
CL-bench Life—16.9%
LMArena Longer Query—1483

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 2: —, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 66.1 (#37)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 2Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
LMArena Text—1481
LMArena Creative Writing—1482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1491
EQ-Bench 4—1142
LMArena Multi-Turn—1488

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 2 better than Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 25.0 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 2 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview share?

4 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 2 has 8 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has 71.

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