Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.1 vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 41.0 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 39 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 39 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 3 Pro in 9 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 57.6 to 26.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is VPCT: 35% for Claude Opus 4.1 and 91% for Gemini 3 Pro.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
Claude Opus 4.1Gemini 3 Pro
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index41.054.8
Released2025-08-052025-11-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked4867

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73), Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 3 Pro
SWE-bench Verified73.3%72.9%
LMArena WebDev13901440
WeirdML45.9%69.9%
LMArena Coding14791481
ALE-Bench674.771,177
AlgoTune1.341.83
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—74.2%
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
GSO—18.6%

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41), Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 3 Pro
Terminal-Bench38%69.4%
GDPval43.6%40.3%
DeepResearch Bench48.3%46.3%
LMArena Search11481207
METR Time Horizons66.8%71%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.5%
Remote Labor Index—1.3%
τ²-bench Airline—80.5%
τ²-bench Banking—18%
τ²-bench Retail—75.9%
τ²-bench Telecom—91%
Cybench42%—
BALROG—58.1%
Vending-Bench 2—5,478

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 3 Pro
SimpleBench60%76.4%
Chess Puzzles7%31%
EnigmaEval7.2%18.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts14431480
Epoch Capabilities Index144.12152.92
ForecastBench6261.2
ARC-AGI-2—31.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark—80.1%
NYT Connections (extended)—94.4%
ARC-AGI-1—75%
CritPt—6.9%
EBR-Bench7.9%—
Mystery Game Puzzles21%—
DTBench80%—
LMCA37.1%—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277), Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101), Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 3 Pro
GPQA Diamond77.3%92.6%
Humanity's Last Exam11.5%37.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate11.8%13.6%
LMArena Expert14391475
MMLU-Pro—90.3%
Confabulations17.1%—
GPQA (HELM)—80.3%

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119), Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 3 Pro
VPCT35%91%
LMArena Vision—1305
GeoBench—84%
LMArena Document—1434

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95), Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 3 Pro
LMArena Non-English14051474
LMArena Chinese14271523
LMArena French14311492
LMArena German14131515
LMArena Japanese13781510
LMArena Korean13801448
LMArena Russian14221493
LMArena Spanish14481470

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58), Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 3 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following14351458
IFEval—87.7%

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63), Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 3 Pro
LMArena Longer Query14551471
CL-bench—15.8%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74), Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.1Gemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text14191479
LMArena Creative Writing14121482
LMArena Multi-Turn14441484
Short-Story Creative Writing84.7%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1525
WildBench—85.9%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.1 better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 41.0 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.1 or Gemini 3 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 44.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemini 3 Pro share?

39 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.1 has 48 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

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