Claude 3 OpusvsGemini 2.5 Pro
Claude 3 Opus | Gemini 2.5 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Benchmarks | ||
Nonsense detection BullshitBench v2Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | — | 20% |
Coding SWE-Bench VerifiedReal coding tasks pulled from open-source projects — the AI has to find and fix actual bugs. A human-checked version of the original SWE-Bench. Higher is better. | 33% | 59.6%Best |
Science GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 50.4% | 86.4%Best |
Multimodal MMMUTests the AI on understanding images and text together across many college subjects. Higher is better. | — | 68% |
Community preference (code) Arena Elo (Code)Like the text arena, but people vote on which AI writes better code. The votes become a chess-style Elo rating on arena.ai. Higher is better. | — | 1224 |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | |
| Release date | Mar 4 2024 | Mar 25 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
Which is better: Claude 3 Opus or Gemini 2.5 Pro?
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads Claude 3 Opus on 2 of the 2 benchmarks they both report (SWE-Bench Verified, GPQA Diamond). Claude 3 Opus shipped 386 days before Gemini 2.5 Pro, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
On SWE-Bench Verified, Gemini 2.5 Pro leads at 59.6% vs Claude 3 Opus at 33%. On GPQA Diamond, Gemini 2.5 Pro leads at 86.4% vs Claude 3 Opus at 50.4%.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 3 Opus was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
Gemini 2.5 Pro was released by Google on Mar 25 2025.
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads on SWE-Bench Verified — Claude 3 Opus 33% vs Gemini 2.5 Pro 59.6%.
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads on GPQA Diamond — Claude 3 Opus 50.4% vs Gemini 2.5 Pro 86.4%.