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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs GPT-5.2

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Winner summary

Claude Opus 4.6 wins 8 of 20 shared benchmarks. Leads in arena · coding.

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Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.6
#72 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
#74 by perf·no signal
QUIET
GPT-5.2
#93 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
1.2x better value than GPT-5.2
Claude Opus 4.6
3.8 pts/$
$15.00/M
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
8.1 pts/$
$7.00/M
GPT-5.2
6.8 pts/$
$7.88/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
Claude Opus 4.6Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGPT-5.2
APEX-Agents
GPT-5.2 leads by +0.8
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Claude Opus 4.6
31.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
33.5
GPT-5.2
34.3
ARC-AGI
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +4.0
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 3.1 Pro Preview
98.0
GPT-5.2
86.2
ARC-AGI-2
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +7.9
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 3.1 Pro Preview
77.1
GPT-5.2
52.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +91.3
Claude Opus 4.6
1538.3
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1447.0
GPT-5.2
1405.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +12.3
Claude Opus 4.6
1498.8
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1486.4
GPT-5.2
1434.6
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +6.0
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 3.1 Pro Preview
55.0
GPT-5.2
49.0
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.
Claude Opus 4.6
40.7
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
36.9
GPT-5.2
40.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +4.1
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 3.1 Pro Preview
16.7
GPT-5.2
18.8
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +4.9
Claude Opus 4.6
26.8
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
26.8
GPT-5.2
31.7
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
GPT-5.2 leads by +1.4
Claude Opus 4.6
66.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
59.6
GPT-5.2
67.4
GPQA diamond
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +3.6
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 3.1 Pro Preview
92.1
GPT-5.2
88.5
GSO-Bench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +13.8
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
41.2
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
22.6
GPT-5.2
27.4
HLE
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +12.6
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 3.1 Pro Preview
43.7
GPT-5.2
24.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
GPT-5.2 leads by +0.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Opus 4.6
94.4
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
95.6
GPT-5.2
96.1
PostTrainBench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +3.2
Claude Opus 4.6
24.8
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
21.6
GPT-5.2
21.4
SimpleBench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +14.4
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 3.1 Pro Preview
75.5
GPT-5.2
35.0
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +30.8
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 3.1 Pro Preview
77.3
GPT-5.2
38.9
SWE-Bench verified
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +3.1
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 3.1 Pro Preview
75.6
GPT-5.2
73.8
Terminal Bench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +0.4
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
79.8
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
80.2
GPT-5.2
64.9
WeirdML
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +5.8
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude Opus 4.6
78.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
72.1
GPT-5.2
72.2
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3.1 Pro PreviewGPT-5.2
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
31.733.534.3
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
94.098.086.2
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.
69.277.152.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1538.31447.01405.0
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1498.81486.41434.6
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
17.055.049.0
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.
40.736.940.7
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.
22.916.718.8
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
26.826.831.7
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
66.059.667.4
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
87.492.188.5
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.
41.222.627.4
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%.
31.143.724.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
94.495.696.1
PostTrainBench
24.821.621.4
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
61.175.535.0
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
46.577.338.9
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.
78.775.673.8
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.
79.880.264.9
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
78.072.172.2
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 3.1 Pro Preview$2.00$12.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$45.00
OpenAI logoGPT-5.2$1.75$14.00400K tokens (~200 books)$48.13