Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 1.0 Pro

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 20 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Gemini 1.0 Pro Google

27.3

Rank #332 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 20 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 8 categories and Gemini 1.0 Pro in 0 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 9.3.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 98.3% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 1.1% for Gemini 1.0 Pro.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 1.0 Pro specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.0 Pro
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index60.727.3
Released2026-05-282023-12-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6524

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 32.2 (#275)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Coding14901108
DeepSWE59%—
FrontierCode46.5%—
LMArena WebDev1556—
SciCode53.5%—
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—
ALE-Bench1,564—
HumanEval+—55.5%
MBPP+—61.4%

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Gemini 1.0 Pro: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.0 Pro
APEX-Agents48.9%—
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
Remote Labor Index8.3%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
GDP.pdf24%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 17.1 (#296)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Hard Prompts14821109
DTBench94.9%45.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21117.04
ARC-AGI-272.1%—
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%—
ARC-AGI-192.5%—
CritPt20.9%—
Chess Puzzles34%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
Mystery Game Puzzles36%—
LMCA57.5%—
Surface Evolver Bench87.5%—
Bench to the Future 30.14—
ForecastBench59.9—

Math Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 78.4 (#13), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 9.3 (#321)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 15.6 (#291)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.0 Pro
GPQA Diamond91%34%
LMArena Expert15021059
SimpleQA Verified53%—
MMLU—70%

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Gemini 1.0 Pro: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Vision1294—
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
Furniture Assembly42.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 33.4 (#252)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Non-English14501138
LMArena Chinese15071124
LMArena French14811145
LMArena German14721125
LMArena Japanese14401023
LMArena Russian14741186
LMArena Spanish14661119
LMArena Korean1432—

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 57.6 (#267)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Instruction Following14761114

Long Context Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 34.3 (#249)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Longer Query14831132

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Gemini 1.0 Pro: 36.0 (#264)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 1.0 Pro
LMArena Text14611149
LMArena Creative Writing14541131
LMArena Multi-Turn14761139
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1840—
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Gemini 1.0 Pro?

Claude Opus 4.8 is the stronger model overall, scoring 60.7 to 27.3 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemini 1.0 Pro better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 32.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 1.0 Pro share?

20 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 1.0 Pro has 24.

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