Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3 Pro

  • Claude Opus 4.6 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1502 against 1480.
  • On the 9 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 2 and Gemini 3 Pro wins 7 (Claude Opus 4.6: SWE-bench, Vibe Code Bench).
LMArena text rating over time
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LatestClaude Opus 4.6 1502Gemini 3 Pro 1480

Side by side

Models (2/6)
  • Claude Opus 4.6
  • Gemini 3 Pro
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Pro
The model
LabAnthropicGoogle
Released2026-02-04—
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Input, per 1M tokens$5—
Output, per 1M tokens$25—
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1502#6 of 3511480#21 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1546#45 of 1241440#80 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1316#6 of 1461305#16 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1534#3 of 3461481#55 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1518#7 of 3391476#38 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1505#4 of 3491483#13 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1524#5 of 3511480#39 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1521#3 of 3511458#43 of 351
Vals AI, coding
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects78.20%#30 of 8576.40%#37 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works53.50%#57 of 11514.30%#91 of 115
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination84.68%#38 of 14386.41%#23 of 143
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes48.24%#30 of 10752.20%#14 of 107
MedQAMedical licensing exam questions, measured on accuracy and on robustness to bias95.41%#12 of 9296.03%#8 of 92
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not89.65%#29 of 13891.67%#19 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering89.11%#15 of 13890.10%#7 of 138
AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad95.63%#9 of 9696.68%#4 of 96
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text83.87%#29 of 9387.51%#14 of 93

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Questions

Which is better, Claude Opus 4.6 or Gemini 3 Pro?

Claude Opus 4.6 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1502 against 1480. On the 9 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 2 and Gemini 3 Pro wins 7 (Claude Opus 4.6: SWE-bench, Vibe Code Bench).

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