Model comparison

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.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus Anthropic

29.3

Rank #300 Confirmed

Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) Google

31.9

Rank #253 Confirmed

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).

Side by side

Claude 3 Opus and Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) specifications
Claude 3 OpusGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index29.331.9
Released2024-02-292024-02-15
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
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Results tracked4645

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

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

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
WeirdML19.2%22.2%
BigCodeBench Instruct45.5%43.8%
LMArena Coding12641294
BigCodeBench Complete57.4%57.5%
HumanEval+77.4%79.3%
MBPP+73.3%74.6%
LiveBench Coding38.6%—
CadEval—34%

Agentic & Tool Use Claude 3 Opus leads

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

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
Cybench10%7.5%
TheAgentCompany—3.4%
BALROG—21%
METR Time Horizons29.5%—

Reasoning Claude 3 Opus leads

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

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
SimpleBench23.5%27.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts12461296
DTBench61.6%59%
Epoch Capabilities Index126.91131.73
ForecastBench58.458.4
ARC-AGI-2—0.8%
Chess Puzzles5%—
EnigmaEval0.8%—
LiveBench Reasoning40.6%—
LiveBench Data Analysis57.9%—
LMCA17%—
BIG-Bench Hard—89.2%
LiveBench49.2%—
WinoGrande88.5%—

Math Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

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

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.7%23.1%
LMArena Math12731315
MATH Level 537.5%70.4%
Omni-MATH—36.4%
LiveBench Math43.6%—

Knowledge Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

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

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
GPQA Diamond47.2%57.2%
Confabulations22.7%13.5%
LMArena Expert12231279
MMLU84.6%86.9%
Humanity's Last Exam—4.6%
SimpleQA Verified12.6%—
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
GPQA (HELM)—53.4%

Multimodal Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

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

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Vision10231161
Video-MME—75%

Multilingual Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

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

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Non-English12581312
LMArena Chinese12481331
LMArena French12741301
LMArena German12581286
LMArena Japanese12041292
LMArena Korean11871298
LMArena Russian12801320
LMArena Spanish12461310

Instruction Following Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

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

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Instruction Following12481297
LiveBench Instruction Following63.9%—
IFEval—83.7%

Long Context Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

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

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Longer Query12591308

Writing & Preference Gemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024) leads

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

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 OpusGemini 1.5 Pro (May 2024)
LMArena Text12621319
LMArena Creative Writing12351333
LMArena Multi-Turn12751296
WildBench—81.3%
LiveBench Language50.4%—

Frequently asked questions

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.

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