Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

  • Claude Opus 5.5 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1516 against 1480.
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is cheaper: $2 / $12 per million input / output tokens, against $4 / $20 for Claude Opus 5.5.
  • On the 6 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 5.5 wins 5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview wins 1 (Claude Opus 5.5: Terminal-Bench 4.0, Vibe Code Bench, Tax Agent Bench).
LMArena text rating over time
14701480149015001510Feb 26Apr 26Jun 26Aug 26Oct 26
LatestGemini 3.1 Pro Preview 1480

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Models (2/6)
  • Claude Opus 5.5
  • Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
BenchmarkClaude Opus 5.5Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
The model
LabAnthropicGoogle
Released2026-09-222026-02-19
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$4$2
Output, per 1M tokens$20$12
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1516#2 of 3511480#19 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1807#1 of 1241447#78 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image1321#2 of 1461296#22 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1545#1 of 3461484#48 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1518#6 of 3391486#28 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1534#1 of 3491482#14 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1536#2 of 3511485#30 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1539#1 of 3511466#35 of 351
Vals AI, overall
Vals IndexVals AI’s headline score70.18%#2 of 27—
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal65.15%#1 of 552.52%#49 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects—78.80%#28 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works90.29%#5 of 11532.03%#72 of 115
Code MigrationRewriting working programs in a new language, graded on whether the new program still passes its tests81.01%#2 of 28—
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination—88.48%#6 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Finance AgentThe core tasks of a financial analyst, done as an agent with research tools67.85%#1 of 31—
Finance IndexVals AI’s composite of finance tasks65.59%#1 of 31—
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions45.57%#3 of 769.29%#62 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal IndexVals AI’s composite of legal tasks72.33%#7 of 28—
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research50.48%#7 of 8520.67%#62 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes49.80%#19 of 10759.06%#2 of 107
MedQAMedical licensing exam questions, measured on accuracy and on robustness to bias—96.37%#3 of 92
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not—95.45%#1 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering—90.99%#4 of 138
AIMEProblems from the American Invitational Mathematics Examination, a qualifier for the US Math Olympiad—98.13%#1 of 96
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text—88.21%#10 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal47.14%#3 of 421.43%#35 of 42

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Questions

Which is better, Claude Opus 5.5 or Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?

Claude Opus 5.5 rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1516 against 1480. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is cheaper: $2 / $12 per million input / output tokens, against $4 / $20 for Claude Opus 5.5. On the 6 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Claude Opus 5.5 wins 5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview wins 1 (Claude Opus 5.5: Terminal-Bench 4.0, Vibe Code Bench, Tax Agent Bench).

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 5.5 or Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is cheaper: $2 / $12 per million input / output tokens, against $4 / $20 for Claude Opus 5.5.

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