Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash

Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.7 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (60.7 vs 59.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Last verified . 43 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic

60.7

Rank #13 Confirmed

Gemini 3.7 Flash Google

59.8

Rank #14 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 43 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher in 5 categories and Gemini 3.7 Flash in 5 categories; 7 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.8 leads 78.4 to 69.6.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is FrontierMath Tier 4: 56.1% for Claude Opus 4.8 and 36.6% for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.8.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.7 Flash specifications
Claude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.7 Flash
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index60.759.8
Released2026-05-282026-08-13
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1.05M
Max output128K66K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.75
Output $ / M tokens$25$3.75
Results tracked6544

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 59.9 (#12), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 56.2 (#22)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.7 Flash
DeepSWE59%65.5%
FrontierCode46.5%43.6%
LMArena WebDev15561592
SciCode53.5%59.8%
LMArena Coding14901497
ALE-Bench1,564904.3
FrontierSWE—20.3%
GSO47.1%—
WeirdML82.9%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 47.6 (#11), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 42.1 (#19)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.7 Flash
APEX-Agents48.9%67.8%
Remote Labor Index8.3%5%
GDP.pdf24%23.8%
OSWorld 2.020.6%—
τ²-bench Banking39.7%—
DeepResearch Bench50.2%—
PostTrainBench33.8%—
GBAEval70.9%—
LMArena Search1204—
Vending-Bench 25,787—

Reasoning Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 64.7 (#16), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 70.0 (#15)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.7 Flash
ARC-AGI-272.1%84.6%
NYT Connections (extended)91.1%94%
ARC-AGI-192.5%95.5%
CritPt20.9%14.3%
Chess Puzzles34%47%
LMArena Hard Prompts14821494
Mystery Game Puzzles36%37%
DTBench94.9%96.8%
LMCA57.5%50.4%
Epoch Capabilities Index158.21157.27
SimpleBench64.8%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark88.8%—
EnigmaEval23.5%—
EBR-Bench28.6%—
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 3.7 Flash: 69.6 (#23)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.7 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)80%71.6%
FrontierMath Tier 456.1%36.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202598.3%97.2%
ProofBench69%58%
LMArena Math14871507
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions91.8%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)47.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)31.3%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 61.3 (#29), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 69.7 (#5)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.7 Flash
GPQA Diamond91%94.8%
SimpleQA Verified53%69.2%
LMArena Expert15021508

Multimodal Claude Opus 4.8 leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 42.9 (#26), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 37.3 (#73)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Vision12941316
Furniture Assembly42.5%26.7%
Blueprint-Bench 214.5%—
LMArena Document1475—

Multilingual Gemini 3.7 Flash leads

Claude Opus 4.8: 55.2 (#33), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 57.6 (#7)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Non-English14501484
LMArena Chinese15071548
LMArena French14811505
LMArena German14721498
LMArena Japanese14401512
LMArena Korean14321483
LMArena Russian14741516
LMArena Spanish14661503

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.8: 77.4 (#24), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 77.7 (#15)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following14761483

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.8: 45.4 (#35), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 45.7 (#30)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Longer Query14831492

Writing & Preference Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.8: 72.0 (#16), Gemini 3.7 Flash: 71.2 (#20)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.7 Flash
LMArena Text14611486
LMArena Creative Writing14541490
EQ-Bench Creative Writing18401723
LMArena Multi-Turn14761489
EQ-Bench 41281—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.8 better than Gemini 3.7 Flash?

Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.7 Flash score almost the same on the Noometry Index (60.7 vs 59.8), so choose on price, context window or the category you care about most.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemini 3.7 Flash?

Gemini 3.7 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemini 3.7 Flash better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.8 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.9 versus 56.2 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.7 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.7 Flash share?

43 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.8 has 65 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.7 Flash has 44.

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