Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.4 vs 34.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 50 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.4

Rank #225 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

34.8

Rank #223 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 50 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 5 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 5 categories; 10 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads 36.1 to 18.0.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 57.8% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index34.434.8
Released2024-06-202024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window——
Max output——
Input $ / M tokens——
Output $ / M tokens——
Results tracked6054

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Category by category

Coding Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.5 (#145), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.2 (#308)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Aider Polyglot51.6%38.2%
WeirdML40%25.8%
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%45.9%
LiveBench Coding67.1%63.4%
LMArena Coding13431351
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%59.9%
CadEval48%30%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—13.5%
GSO4.6%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.1 (#61), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.0 (#85)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
TheAgentCompany24%11.4%
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 22.5 (#176), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#308)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
SimpleBench41.4%31.1%
EnigmaEval0.9%1.1%
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%78.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts13051346
DTBench67.8%63.2%
LiveBench Data Analysis55%69.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55135.36
LiveBench59%66.9%
ARC-AGI-2—1.3%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—37.8%
ForecastBench60.7—

Math Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 18.0 (#282), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.1 (#127)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%57.8%
Omni-MATH27.6%45.9%
LiveBench Math52.3%75.8%
LMArena Math13061351
MATH Level 556.9%82.2%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%1.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.5 (#236), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#207)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
GPQA Diamond55.3%64.1%
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%6.6%
MMLU-Pro77.7%73.7%
Confabulations19.9%12.4%
GPQA (HELM)56.5%55.6%
LMArena Expert12641340
MMLU87.3%79.7%

Multimodal Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.0 (#115), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 35.9 (#74)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Vision11251158
GeoBench62%77%
Video-MME60%—
VPCT33%—

Multilingual Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.4 (#180), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.6 (#144)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Non-English12831342
LMArena Chinese12711373
LMArena French13041390
LMArena German12971354
LMArena Japanese12341293
LMArena Korean12001314
LMArena Russian13051351
LMArena Spanish12891363

Instruction Following Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 69.0 (#177), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.6 (#91)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%85.8%
IFEval85.5%84.1%
LMArena Instruction Following12971336

Long Context Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#162), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#198)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Longer Query13111345
Fiction.LiveBench—61.1%

Writing & Preference Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 53.0 (#159), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.8 (#184)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetGemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Text12981354
LMArena Creative Writing12921340
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%73.8%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing14511128
WildBench79.2%80%
LMArena Multi-Turn13261350
LiveBench Language53.8%51.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) score almost the same on the Noometry Index (34.4 vs 34.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher on coding benchmarks: 39.5 versus 28.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

50 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.

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