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Claude Opus 4.8vsGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Claude Opus 4.8 leads 5 of 5 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is 17.1x cheaper per token. Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).

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Shared benchmarks
5 – 0
Claude Opus 4.8 leads
Cheaper per token
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
17.1x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · Google
Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · released 2026-05-28
textvision
Context
1M
Max out
128K
Input /1M
$5
Output /1M
$25
Cached /1M
$0.5
Scores
17 · 13 core
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Google · released 2026-03-03
textvisionaudio
Context
1.0M
Max out
66K
Input /1M
$0.25
Output /1M
$1.5
Cached /1M
$0.025
Scores
10 · 5 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteΔEdge
Reported by both · 5
GPQA Diamond93.6% 86.9% +6.7 ptClaude Opus 4.8
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)49.8% 16% +33.8 ptClaude Opus 4.8
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run)80% epoch27.7% epoch+52.3 ptClaude Opus 4.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run)98.3% epoch80% epoch+18.3 ptClaude Opus 4.8
SimpleQA Verified53% epoch43.3% +9.7 ptClaude Opus 4.8
Only Claude Opus 4.8 reports · 11
SWE-bench Verified88.6% not reported
AIME 2026100% matharenanot reported
LMArena Elo1452.7 not reported
BrowseComp84.3% not reported
FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run)56.1% epochnot reported
Humanity's Last Exam (with tools)57.9% not reported
OSWorld-Verified83.4% not reported
SWE-bench Multilingual84.4% not reported
SWE-bench Multimodal38.4% not reported
SWE-Bench Pro69.2% not reported
Terminal-Bench 2.174.6% not reported
Only Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite reports · 4
LiveCodeBenchnot reported72%
MMMLUnot reported88.9%
MMMU-Pronot reported76.8%
MRCR v2 (128k average)not reported60.1%
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 4.8 minus Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 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

SpecClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteEdge
Context window1M tokens1.0M tokensGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Max output128K tokens66K tokensClaude Opus 4.8
Input price / 1M$5 $0.25 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Output price / 1M$25 $1.5 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Cached input / 1M$0.5 $0.025 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$30$1.75Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Modalitiestext · visiontext · vision · audioGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Released2026-05-282026-03-03
Cited benchmark scores1710
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