Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 31 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) Google

35.1

Rank #228 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 31 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 10 categories and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 57.8 to 15.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 69.2% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 1.3% for Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025).

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index58.235.1
Released2026-02-042024-12-06
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6854

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.4 (#315)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%13.5%
WeirdML78%25.8%
LMArena Coding15361350
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
Aider Polyglot—38.2%
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
BigCodeBench Instruct—45.9%
LiveBench Coding—63.4%
BigCodeBench Complete—59.9%
CadEval—30%
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 28.1 (#92)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
TheAgentCompany—11.4%
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 15.2 (#318)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
ARC-AGI-269.2%1.3%
SimpleBench67.6%31.1%
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%37.8%
EnigmaEval7.6%1.1%
LMArena Hard Prompts15271346
DTBench91.2%63.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24135.36
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
Chess Puzzles17%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LiveBench Reasoning—78.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
LiveBench Data Analysis—69.4%
LMCA55.8%—
ForecastBench60—
LiveBench—66.9%

Math Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 37.9 (#146)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%57.8%
LMArena Math15191352
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)40.7%1.7%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions78.5%—
ProofBench50%—
Omni-MATH—45.9%
LiveBench Math—75.8%
MATH Level 5—82.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 32.0 (#213)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
GPQA Diamond90.5%64.1%
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%6.6%
LMArena Expert15461339
SimpleQA Verified47%—
MMLU-Pro—73.7%
Confabulations—12.4%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
GPQA (HELM)—55.6%
MMLU—79.7%

Multimodal Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 36.5 (#79)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Vision13161158
GeoBench—77%
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 47.4 (#149)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Non-English14891342
LMArena Chinese15511373
LMArena French15131391
LMArena German15021353
LMArena Japanese14841294
LMArena Korean14641313
LMArena Russian14971351
LMArena Spanish15101363

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 74.4 (#97)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Instruction Following15231336
LiveBench Instruction Following—85.8%
IFEval—84.1%

Long Context Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 38.1 (#203)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Longer Query15201344
Fiction.LiveBench—61.1%
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025): 49.5 (#190)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)
LMArena Text15031354
LMArena Creative Writing15051340
EQ-Bench Creative Writing18091128
LMArena Multi-Turn15131350
Short-Story Creative Writing—73.8%
WildBench—80%
EQ-Bench 41223—
LiveBench Language—51.3%

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025)?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 35.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 57.2 versus 28.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) share?

31 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 2.0 Flash (Feb 2025) has 54.

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