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Amanda Caswell

I tested Gemini 2.5 Pro vs Claude 4.5 with 9 challenging prompts — and there's a clear winner

Gemini vs claude .

With the recent launch of Claude 4.5 I've been testing it a lot. I recently put Claude 4.5 to the test against ChatGPT-5 and couldn’t believe the results. Anthropic calls their latest model the “smartest model yet,” which is why I couldn’t wait to see what it could do against Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro.

To find how how the two compare, I put them through nine different challenges designed to stress-test their accuracy, reasoning and creativity — something these models are known for doing well in benchmark tests.

From logic and math word problems to coding and creative writing, here’s what I discovered when these two cutting-edge models went toe to toe. The results might surprise you!

1. Logic puzzle

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