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Claude Opus 5vsGemini 3.6 Flash
Claude Opus 5 leads 3 of 5 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3.6 Flash is 6.7x cheaper per token. Gemini 3.6 Flash has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
3 – 2
Claude Opus 5 leads
Cheaper per token
Gemini 3.6 Flash
6.7x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 3.6 Flash
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · Google
Claude Opus 5
Anthropic · released 2026-07-24
textvision
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google · released 2026-07-21
textvisionaudio
Quality
Benchmark matrix
5 shared · 4 only Claude Opus 5 · 9 only Gemini 3.6 Flash| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 5 | ||||
| GPQA Diamond | 93.9% ↗epoch | 94.1% ↗epoch | -0.2 pt | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 73.2% ↗epoch | 22% ↗epoch | +51.2 pt | Claude Opus 5 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 85.6% ↗epoch | 58.9% ↗epoch | +26.7 pt | Claude Opus 5 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 98.9% ↗epoch | 94.2% ↗epoch | +4.7 pt | Claude Opus 5 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 59.9% ↗epoch | 66.2% ↗epoch | -6.3 pt | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| Only Claude Opus 5 reports · 4 | ||||
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 56.6% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| CursorBench 3.2.0 | 70% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| GDPval-AA v2 | 1824 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 | 29% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Gemini 3.6 Flash reports · 9 | ||||
| AIME 2026 | not reported | 96.7% ↗matharena ⚠ | — | — |
| CharXiv Reasoning (no tools) | not reported | 85.2% ↗ | — | — |
| DeepSWE v1.1 | not reported | 49% ↗ | — | — |
| GDM-MRCR v2 (128k average) | not reported | 91.8% ↗ | — | — |
| GDPVal-AA v2 | not reported | 1421 ↗ | — | — |
| MLE-Bench | not reported | 63.9% ↗ | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | not reported | 83% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-Bench Pro (Public) | not reported | 58.7% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-bench 2.1 | not reported | 78% ↗ | — | — |
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 3.6 Flash 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 3.6 Flash | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.0M tokens | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 66K tokens | Claude Opus 5 |
| Input price / 1M | $5 ↗ | $0.75 ↗ | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| Output price / 1M | $25 ↗ | $3.75 ↗ | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | $0.075 ↗ | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $30 | $4.5 | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision · audio | Gemini 3.6 Flash |
| Released | 2026-07-24 | 2026-07-21 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 9 | 14 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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