Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

42.9

Rank #93 Confirmed

Gemini 3.5 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #29 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 3.5 Flash in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.5 Flash leads 62.7 to 27.4.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 8.6% for Claude Opus 4 and 72.1% for Gemini 3.5 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper at $1.50 / $9 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 3.5 Flash specifications
Claude Opus 4Gemini 3.5 Flash
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index42.954.1
Released2025-05-222026-05-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K1.05M
Max output32K66K
Input $ / M tokens$15$1.50
Output $ / M tokens$75$9
Results tracked5654

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.8 (#55), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 49.1 (#46)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3.5 Flash
SWE-bench Verified70.7%79.3%
WeirdML43.7%62.6%
LMArena Coding14421492
DeepSWE—37.4%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%—
Aider Polyglot72%—
LMArena WebDev—1499
SciCode—53.1%
GSO6.9%—
ALE-Bench—911.02
AlgoTune1.33—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4 leads

Claude Opus 4: 34.5 (#39), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 24.8 (#107)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3.5 Flash
APEX-Agents—27.5%
Cybench38%—
DeepResearch Bench46.8%—
GBAEval—6.7%
GDP.pdf—14%
LMArena Search1127—
METR Time Horizons63.9%—
Vending-Bench 2—5,396

Reasoning Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.4 (#104), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 62.7 (#16)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3.5 Flash
ARC-AGI-28.6%72.1%
SimpleBench58.8%76.7%
ARC-AGI-135.7%92.5%
CritPt0.3%13.1%
EnigmaEval5.6%25.4%
LMArena Hard Prompts13991488
DTBench81.6%94.7%
LMCA37.4%47.1%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67154.55
ForecastBench61.159
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%—
NYT Connections (extended)—92.6%
Chess Puzzles—50%
EBR-Bench—4.8%
Mystery Game Puzzles—32%
Surface Evolver Bench—58.1%

Math Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Claude Opus 4: 40.2 (#80), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 60.5 (#30)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3.5 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%95.6%
LMArena Math13911502
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%39%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%14.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—62.8%
FrontierMath Tier 4—26.8%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—76.3%
ProofBench—31%
Omni-MATH61.6%—
MATH Level 585%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Claude Opus 4: 43.9 (#82), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 66.3 (#10)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3.5 Flash
GPQA Diamond76.3%92.8%
LMArena Expert13841493
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%—
SimpleQA Verified—66.2%
MMLU-Pro87.5%—
Confabulations15.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)70.8%—

Multimodal Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Claude Opus 4: 30.9 (#101), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.7 (#13)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Vision11921311
GeoBench49%—
VPCT38%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—33.6%
LMArena Document—1463

Multilingual Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Claude Opus 4: 49.0 (#133), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 57.1 (#12)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Non-English13621475
LMArena Chinese13861525
LMArena French13701490
LMArena German13911500
LMArena Japanese13321481
LMArena Korean13181453
LMArena Russian13921491
LMArena Spanish13881478

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 77.3 (#26), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 77.2 (#29)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following14061466
IFEval91.8%—

Long Context Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.5 (#167), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 45.3 (#39)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Longer Query14221481
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.5 Flash leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.4 (#85), Gemini 3.5 Flash: 65.5 (#46)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3.5 Flash
LMArena Text13771481
LMArena Creative Writing13861467
LMArena Multi-Turn13961482
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1580—
WildBench85.2%—
EQ-Bench 4—1087

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Gemini 3.5 Flash?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 42.9 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4 or Gemini 3.5 Flash?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $1.50 per million input tokens and $9 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4 lists at $15 and $75.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Gemini 3.5 Flash better for coding?

Gemini 3.5 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.1 versus 47.8 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 3.5 Flash share?

33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.5 Flash has 54.

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