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Claude Opus 4.5vs
Gemini 4 Argon
Gemini 4 Argon leads 4 of 4 shared benchmarks. Gemini 4 Argon is 2.5x cheaper per token.
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
0 – 4
Gemini 4 Argon leads
Cheaper per token
Gemini 4 Argon
2.5x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
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both 200K tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · Google
Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic · released 2025-11-24
textvision
Gemini 4 Argon
Google · released 2026-09-30
textvisionvideo
Quality
Benchmark matrix
4 shared · 34 only Claude Opus 4.5 · 8 only Gemini 4 Argon| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.5 | Gemini 4 Argon | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 4 | ||||
| LMArena Elo | 1473.6 ↗ | 1525.2 ↗ | -51.6 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1493.3 ↗ | 1679.5 ↗ | -186.2 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 52.1% ↗ | 53.6% ↗ | -1.5 pt | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 4967.06 ↗ | 13718.16 ↗ | -8751.1 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Only Claude Opus 4.5 reports · 34 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GPQA Diamond | 87% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 37.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| BALROG (BALROG) | 43.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 12% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| EBR-bench (Epoch AI run) | 14.3% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 4.9% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 34.4% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run) | 28.3% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| GSO Opt@1 (GSO) | 24.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench) | 39.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Coding (LiveBench) | 79.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench) | 74.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench) | 62.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Language (LiveBench) | 81.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench) | 90.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench) | 80.1% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 62.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMLU | 90.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU (validation) | 80.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 22% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld | 66.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 86.1% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 62% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 45.7% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 76.7% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Airline (Sierra) | 84% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra) | 24.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Retail (Sierra) | 79.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Telecom (Sierra) | 92.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 59.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) | 63.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| τ2-bench (Retail) | 88.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| τ2-bench (Telecom) | 98.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Gemini 4 Argon reports · 8 | ||||
| APEX-Agents (Mercor) | not reported | 82.2% ↗ | — | — |
| AutomationBench | not reported | 51.3% ↗ | — | — |
| CWE-bench v1 | not reported | 68% ↗ | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | not reported | 77.9% ↗ | — | — |
| FrontierSWE V2 (Proximal Labs) | not reported | 55% ↗ | — | — |
| LMArena Agent (LMArena) | not reported | 0.0757 ↗ | — | — |
| LVBench | not reported | 91.7% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals AI) | not reported | 57.6% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 4.5 minus Gemini 4 Argon in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 4.5 | Gemini 4 Argon | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K tokens | — | — |
| Max output | 64K tokens | 1M tokens | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Input price / 1M | $5 ↗ | $2 ↗ | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Output price / 1M | $25 ↗ | $10 ↗ | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | $0.1 ↗ | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $30 | $12 | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision · video | Gemini 4 Argon |
| Released | 2025-11-24 | 2026-09-30 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 39 | 12 | — |
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