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Step 5 PreviewClaude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash
- Claude Opus 4.6 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1502 against 1490.
- Gemini 3.7 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.
- On the 7 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 0 and Gemini 3.7 Flash wins 7.
LatestClaude Opus 4.6 1502
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Models (2/6)
- Claude Opus 4.6
- Gemini 3.7 Flash
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Gemini 3.7 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| The model | ||
| Lab | Anthropic | |
| Released | 2026-02-04 | 2026-08-13 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Input, per 1M tokens | $5 | $0.75 |
| Output, per 1M tokens | $25 | $3.75 |
| LMArena, people’s votes | ||
| LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer | 1502#6 of 351 | 1490#14 of 351 |
| LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one | 1546#45 of 124 | 1590#33 of 124 |
| LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image | 1316#6 of 146 | 1314#8 of 146 |
| LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code | 1534#3 of 346 | 1501#24 of 346 |
| LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts | 1518#7 of 339 | 1510#10 of 339 |
| LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing | 1505#4 of 349 | 1489#9 of 349 |
| LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts | 1524#5 of 351 | 1497#15 of 351 |
| LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow | 1521#3 of 351 | 1486#15 of 351 |
| Vals AI, coding | ||
| Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal | — | 12.12%#37 of 55 |
| SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects | 78.20%#30 of 85 | 80.80%#22 of 85 |
| Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works | 53.50%#57 of 115 | 70.39%#43 of 115 |
| LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination | 84.68%#38 of 143 | 88.65%#5 of 143 |
| Vals AI, finance | ||
| Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions | — | 22.80%#44 of 76 |
| Vals AI, law | ||
| Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research | — | 34.62%#45 of 85 |
| Vals AI, medicine | ||
| MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes | 48.24%#30 of 107 | 53.39%#9 of 107 |
| MedQAMedical licensing exam questions, measured on accuracy and on robustness to bias | 95.41%#12 of 92 | — |
| Vals AI, reasoning | ||
| GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not | 89.65%#29 of 138 | 93.94%#5 of 138 |
| MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering | 89.11%#15 of 138 | 90.12%#6 of 138 |
| AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad | 95.63%#9 of 96 | — |
| MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text | 83.87%#29 of 93 | 88.96%#5 of 93 |
| Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal | — | 7.14%#20 of 42 |
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Questions
Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or Gemini 3.7 Flash?
Claude Opus 4.6 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1502 against 1490. Gemini 3.7 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6. On the 7 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 0 and Gemini 3.7 Flash wins 7.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.6 or Gemini 3.7 Flash?
Gemini 3.7 Flash is cheaper: $0.75 / $3.75 per million input / output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.6.