Model comparison

Claude Opus 4 vs Gemini 3 Pro

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 48 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4 Anthropic

43.1

Rank #100 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Pro Google

54.8

Rank #28 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 48 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 1 category and Gemini 3 Pro in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in multimodal, where Gemini 3 Pro leads 57.6 to 31.5.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is VPCT: 38% for Claude Opus 4 and 91% for Gemini 3 Pro.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 3 Pro specifications
Claude Opus 4Gemini 3 Pro
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index43.154.8
Released2025-05-222025-11-18
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K—
Max output32K—
Input $ / M tokens$15—
Output $ / M tokens$75—
Results tracked5667

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Gemini 3 Pro: 51.6 (#39)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3 Pro
SWE-bench Verified70.7%72.9%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)67.6%74.2%
GSO6.9%18.6%
WeirdML43.7%69.9%
LMArena Coding14421481
AlgoTune1.331.83
Aider Polyglot72%—
LMArena WebDev—1440
SWE-bench Multilingual—68.7%
ALE-Bench—1,177

Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Gemini 3 Pro: 40.6 (#23)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3 Pro
DeepResearch Bench46.8%46.3%
LMArena Search11271207
METR Time Horizons63.9%71%
Terminal-Bench—69.4%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—72.5%
GDPval—40.3%
Remote Labor Index—1.3%
τ²-bench Airline—80.5%
τ²-bench Banking—18%
τ²-bench Retail—75.9%
τ²-bench Telecom—91%
Cybench38%—
BALROG—58.1%
Vending-Bench 2—5,478

Reasoning Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Gemini 3 Pro: 52.5 (#31)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3 Pro
ARC-AGI-28.6%31.1%
SimpleBench58.8%76.4%
Kagi LLM Benchmark74.3%80.1%
ARC-AGI-135.7%75%
CritPt0.3%6.9%
EnigmaEval5.6%18.2%
LMArena Hard Prompts13991480
Epoch Capabilities Index142.67152.92
ForecastBench61.161.2
NYT Connections (extended)—94.4%
Chess Puzzles—31%
DTBench81.6%—
LMCA37.4%—

Math Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Gemini 3 Pro: 49.9 (#59)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3 Pro
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202564.4%91.4%
Omni-MATH61.6%55.5%
LMArena Math13901476
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)4.5%37.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%18.8%
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—67%
ProofBench—20%
MATH Level 585%—

Knowledge Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Gemini 3 Pro: 64.4 (#16)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3 Pro
GPQA Diamond76.3%92.6%
Humanity's Last Exam10.7%37.5%
MMLU-Pro87.5%90.3%
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%13.6%
GPQA (HELM)70.8%80.3%
LMArena Expert13861475
Confabulations15.9%—

Multimodal Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Gemini 3 Pro: 57.6 (#2)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3 Pro
LMArena Vision11921305
GeoBench49%84%
VPCT38%91%
LMArena Document—1434

Multilingual Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Gemini 3 Pro: 56.9 (#16)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3 Pro
LMArena Non-English13621474
LMArena Chinese13861523
LMArena French13721492
LMArena German13911515
LMArena Japanese13311510
LMArena Korean13211448
LMArena Russian13921493
LMArena Spanish13891470

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Gemini 3 Pro: 76.3 (#45)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3 Pro
IFEval91.8%87.7%
LMArena Instruction Following14061458

Long Context Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Gemini 3 Pro: 44.0 (#79)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3 Pro
LMArena Longer Query14221471
Fiction.LiveBench61.1%—
CL-bench—15.8%

Writing & Preference Gemini 3 Pro leads

Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Gemini 3 Pro: 66.4 (#35)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4Gemini 3 Pro
LMArena Text13771479
LMArena Creative Writing13871482
EQ-Bench Creative Writing15801525
WildBench85.2%85.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn13961484
Short-Story Creative Writing83.6%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4 better than Gemini 3 Pro?

Gemini 3 Pro is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.8 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4 or Gemini 3 Pro better for coding?

Gemini 3 Pro scores higher on coding benchmarks: 51.6 versus 47.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 3 Pro share?

48 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Pro has 67.

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