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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview

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Winner summary

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

Category leads
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Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.6
#56 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
#98 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Best value
7.3x better value than Claude Opus 4.6
Claude Opus 4.6
3.8 pts/$
$15.00/M
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
28.1 pts/$
$1.75/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 3 Flash Preview
APEX-Agents
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +7.7
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 Flash Preview
24.0
ARC-AGI
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +72.5
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 Flash Preview
21.5
ARC-AGI-2
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +35.6
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 Flash Preview
33.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +106.4
Claude Opus 4.6
1542.9
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1436.4
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +22.7
Claude Opus 4.6
1496.6
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1473.9
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +21.0
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 Flash Preview
38.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +5.1
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 Flash Preview
35.6
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 3 Flash Preview
4.2
GPQA diamond
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +9.8
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 Flash Preview
77.6
GSO-Bench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +23.5
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 3 Flash Preview
9.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +1.7
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Opus 4.6
94.4
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
92.8
SimpleBench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +7.8
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 Flash Preview
53.3
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +20.9
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 Flash Preview
67.4
SWE-Bench verified
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +3.3
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 Flash Preview
75.4
Terminal Bench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +10.4
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
74.7
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
64.3
WeirdML
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +16.3
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 3 Flash Preview
61.6
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Flash Preview
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
31.724.0
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
94.021.5
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.
69.233.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1542.91436.4
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1496.61473.9
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
17.038.0
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.
40.735.6
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.
87.477.6
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.
33.39.8
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
94.492.8
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
61.153.3
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
46.567.4
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.
78.775.4
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.
74.764.3
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
77.961.6
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 Flash Preview$0.50$3.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$11.25