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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

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Winner summary

Claude Opus 4.6 wins 14 of 16 shared benchmarks. Leads in reasoning · arena · math.

Category leads
reasoning·Claude Opus 4.6arena·Claude Opus 4.6knowledge·Gemini 2.5 Promath·Claude Opus 4.6coding·Claude Opus 4.6
Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.6
#56 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Gemini 2.5 Pro
#61 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
2.6x better value than Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
3.8 pts/$
$15.00/M
Gemini 2.5 Pro
10.0 pts/$
$5.63/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Claude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.5 Pro
ARC-AGI
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +53.0
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Claude Opus 4.6
94.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro
41.0
ARC-AGI-2
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +64.3
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
Claude Opus 4.6
69.2
Gemini 2.5 Pro
4.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +340.9
Claude Opus 4.6
1542.9
Gemini 2.5 Pro
1202.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +48.4
Claude Opus 4.6
1496.6
Gemini 2.5 Pro
1448.2
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads by +3.0
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Claude Opus 4.6
17.0
Gemini 2.5 Pro
20.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +26.6
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude Opus 4.6
40.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
14.1
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +18.7
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude Opus 4.6
22.9
Gemini 2.5 Pro
4.2
GPQA diamond
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +7.0
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Opus 4.6
87.4
Gemini 2.5 Pro
80.4
GSO-Bench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +29.4
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
Claude Opus 4.6
33.3
Gemini 2.5 Pro
3.9
HLE
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +13.4
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
Claude Opus 4.6
31.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
17.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +9.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Opus 4.6
94.4
Gemini 2.5 Pro
84.7
SimpleBench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +6.2
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude Opus 4.6
61.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro
54.9
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 2.5 Pro leads by +9.5
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Claude Opus 4.6
46.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
56.0
SWE-Bench verified
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +21.2
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
Claude Opus 4.6
78.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
57.6
Terminal Bench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +42.1
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
Claude Opus 4.6
74.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
32.6
WeirdML
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +23.9
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude Opus 4.6
77.9
Gemini 2.5 Pro
54.0
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 2.5 Pro
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
94.041.0
ARC-AGI-2
ARC-AGI-2 · the second iteration of the Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing novel pattern recognition and abstract reasoning without prior training data.
69.24.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1542.91202.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1496.61448.2
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
17.020.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
40.714.1
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
22.94.2
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
87.480.4
GSO-Bench
GSO-Bench · evaluates AI models on real-world open-source software engineering tasks, testing the ability to understand and resolve actual GitHub issues.
33.33.9
HLE
HLE (Humanity's Last Exam) · a reasoning benchmark designed to be the hardest public evaluation of AI. Questions span mathematics, physics, philosophy, and logic · curated to be at or beyond the frontier of human expert capability. Tested with and without tool augmentation. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 46.9% without tools and 54.7% with tools · making it one of the few benchmarks where the top score is below 60%.
31.117.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
94.484.7
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
61.154.9
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
46.556.0
SWE-Bench verified
SWE-bench Verified · 500 human-validated tasks from 12 real Python repositories (Django, Flask, scikit-learn, sympy, and others). Each task requires the model to produce a git patch that resolves a real GitHub issue and passes the test suite. The verified subset eliminates ambiguous tasks from the original SWE-bench. Claude Mythos Preview leads at 93.9%, crossing 90% for the first time in 2026. Opus 4.6 scores 80.8%. The benchmark remains the most-cited evaluation for code-generation capability.
78.757.6
Terminal Bench
Terminal-Bench 2.0 · evaluates AI agents on real terminal-based coding tasks · writing scripts, debugging, running tests, and managing projects entirely through command-line interaction. Tests both code quality and terminal fluency. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 69.4%, demonstrating significant agentic terminal competence.
74.732.6
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
77.954.0
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.6$5.00$25.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$100.00
Google DeepMind logoGemini 2.5 Pro$1.25$10.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$34.38