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Claude Opus 5vsGemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Claude Opus 5 leads 2 of 2 shared benchmarks. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is 60x cheaper per token. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
2 – 0
Claude Opus 5 leads
Cheaper per token
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
60x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · Google
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic · released 2026-07-24
textvision
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Google · released 2025-07-22
textvisionaudio
Quality
Benchmark matrix
2 shared · 7 only Claude Opus 5 · 2 only Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 2 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 93.9% ↗epoch | 66.7% ↗ | +27.2 pt | Claude Opus 5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 56.6% ↗ | 6.9% ↗ | +49.7 pt | Claude Opus 5 |
| Only Claude Opus 5 reports · 7 | ||||
| CursorBench 3.2.0 | 70% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 73.2% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 85.6% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA v2 | 1824 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 98.9% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 59.9% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 | 29% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite reports · 2 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | not reported | 27.6% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 63.1% ↗ | — | — |
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 5 minus Gemini 2.5 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
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.0M tokens | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 66K tokens | Claude Opus 5 |
| Input price / 1M | $5 ↗ | $0.1 ↗ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
| Output price / 1M | $25 ↗ | $0.4 ↗ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | $0.01 ↗ | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $30 | $0.5 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision · audio | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
| Released | 2026-07-24 | 2025-07-22 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 9 | 4 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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