Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) vs Gemini 2.5 Pro
Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) | Google Gemini 2.5 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | |
| Release date | Oct 22 2024 | Mar 25 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| 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. | 49% | 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. | — | 86.4% |
Multimodal MMMUTests the AI on understanding images and text together across many college subjects. Higher is better. | — | 68% |
| Timeline | ||
| Release gap | Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) shipped 154 days before Gemini 2.5 Pro | |
Which is better: Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) or Gemini 2.5 Pro?
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (SWE-Bench Verified). Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) shipped 154 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 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) at 49%.
Frequently asked questions
Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) was released by Anthropic on Oct 22 2024.
Gemini 2.5 Pro was released by Google on Mar 25 2025.
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads on SWE-Bench Verified — Claude 3.5 Sonnet (upgraded) 49% vs Gemini 2.5 Pro 59.6%.
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