Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Opus 5

  • Gemini 4 Argon rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1526 against 1508.
  • Gemini 4 Argon is cheaper: $2 / $10 per million input / output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 5.
  • On the 6 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 4 Argon wins 3 and Claude Opus 5 wins 3 (Gemini 4 Argon: Terminal-Bench 4.0, Vibe Code Bench, Terminal-Bench Science).

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Models (2/6)
  • Gemini 4 Argon
  • Claude Opus 5
BenchmarkGemini 4 ArgonClaude Opus 5
The model
LabGoogleAnthropic
Released2026-10-132026-07-24
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1M
Input, per 1M tokens$2$5
Output, per 1M tokens$10$25
LMArena, people’s votes
LMArena TextMillions of people compare two anonymous models side by side and vote for the better answer1526#1 of 3511508#4 of 351
LMArena WebDevPeople ask two anonymous models to build the same web app, try both and vote for the better one1674#11 of 1241691#9 of 124
LMArena VisionSide-by-side votes on prompts that include an image—1320#3 of 146
LMArena CodingLMArena’s text votes on prompts that ask for code1539#2 of 3461533#4 of 346
LMArena MathLMArena’s text votes on math prompts1538#1 of 3391533#2 of 339
LMArena Creative writingLMArena’s text votes on stories, poems and other creative writing1523#2 of 3491495#5 of 349
LMArena Hard promptsLMArena’s text votes on the hardest prompts1538#1 of 3511527#4 of 351
LMArena Instruction followingLMArena’s text votes on prompts with specific instructions to follow1528#2 of 3511518#5 of 351
Vals AI, overall
Vals IndexVals AI’s headline score69.24%#3 of 27—
Vals AI, coding
Terminal-Bench 4.0Frontier-difficulty tasks an agent completes in a real terminal57.58%#7 of 5553.53%#9 of 55
SWE-benchReal GitHub issues from open-source projects—97.00%#1 of 85
Vibe Code BenchBuilding complete web apps from a plain-language brief, graded on whether the app works91.91%#2 of 11588.40%#9 of 115
Code MigrationRewriting working programs in a new language, graded on whether the new program still passes its tests70.80%#6 of 28—
LiveCodeBenchFresh competitive programming problems, collected after models’ training cut-offs to avoid contamination—89.03%#4 of 143
Vals AI, finance
Finance AgentThe core tasks of a financial analyst, done as an agent with research tools67.66%#2 of 31—
Finance IndexVals AI’s composite of finance tasks64.89%#2 of 31—
Tax Agent BenchAgentic research into US corporate tax questions44.56%#5 of 7645.55%#4 of 76
Vals AI, law
Legal IndexVals AI’s composite of legal tasks76.72%#2 of 28—
Legal Research BenchAgentic US legal research54.81%#4 of 8555.29%#2 of 85
Vals AI, medicine
MedCodeAssigning the right medical billing codes from clinical notes58.80%#3 of 10763.57%#1 of 107
Vals AI, reasoning
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level questions in biology, physics and chemistry that experts answer well and search does not—93.43%#8 of 138
MMLU-ProHarder, reasoning-focused multiple choice across 14 subjects, from law to engineering—91.59%#2 of 138
MMMUCollege-level questions that need both an image and text—89.88%#2 of 93
Terminal-Bench ScienceExpert-written scientific research workflows, run by an agent in a terminal44.29%#5 of 4227.14%#9 of 42

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Questions

Which is better, Gemini 4 Argon or Claude Opus 5?

Gemini 4 Argon rates higher on LMArena’s text leaderboard: 1526 against 1508. Gemini 4 Argon is cheaper: $2 / $10 per million input / output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 5. On the 6 Vals AI benchmarks both have taken, Gemini 4 Argon wins 3 and Claude Opus 5 wins 3 (Gemini 4 Argon: Terminal-Bench 4.0, Vibe Code Bench, Terminal-Bench Science).

Which is cheaper, Gemini 4 Argon or Claude Opus 5?

Gemini 4 Argon is cheaper: $2 / $10 per million input / output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 5.

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