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GPT-5 Chat vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview vs Claude Opus 4.6

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Winner summary

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview wins 9 of 16 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · reasoning · knowledge.

Category leads
arena·Claude Opus 4.6agentic·Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewreasoning·Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewknowledge·Gemini 3.1 Pro Previewmath·Claude Opus 4.6coding·Claude Opus 4.6
Hype vs Reality
GPT-5 Chat
#3 by perf·#1 by attention
DESERVED
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
#38 by perf·no signal
QUIET
Claude Opus 4.6
#56 by perf·#4 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
1.7x better value than Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
GPT-5 Chat
14.6 pts/$
$5.63/M
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
8.7 pts/$
$7.00/M
Claude Opus 4.6
3.8 pts/$
$15.00/M
Vendor risk
OpenAI logo
OpenAI
$840.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Google DeepMind logo
Google DeepMind
$4.00T·Tier 1
Low risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$380.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
Head to head
GPT-5 ChatGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewClaude Opus 4.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +4.0
GPT-5 Chat
1426.0
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1492.6
Claude Opus 4.6
1496.6
APEX-Agents
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +1.8
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
33.5
Claude Opus 4.6
31.7
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.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
98.0
Claude Opus 4.6
94.0
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.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
77.1
Claude Opus 4.6
69.2
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +87.2
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
1455.7
Claude Opus 4.6
1542.9
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +38.0
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
55.0
Claude Opus 4.6
17.0
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +3.8
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
36.9
Claude Opus 4.6
40.7
FrontierMath-Tier-4-2025-07-01-Private
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +6.2
FrontierMath Tier 4 (Jul 2025) · the most challenging tier of frontier mathematics, containing problems that push the absolute limits of AI mathematical reasoning.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
16.7
Claude Opus 4.6
22.9
GPQA diamond
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +4.8
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
92.1
Claude Opus 4.6
87.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +1.2
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
95.6
Claude Opus 4.6
94.4
PostTrainBench
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by +1.6
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
21.6
Claude Opus 4.6
23.2
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.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
75.5
Claude Opus 4.6
61.1
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.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
77.3
Claude Opus 4.6
46.5
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.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
75.6
Claude Opus 4.6
78.7
Terminal Bench
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads by +3.7
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.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
78.4
Claude Opus 4.6
74.7
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.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
72.1
Claude Opus 4.6
77.9
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkGPT-5 ChatGemini 3.1 Pro PreviewClaude Opus 4.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1426.01492.61496.6
APEX-Agents
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
33.531.7
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
98.094.0
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.
77.169.2
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1455.71542.9
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
55.017.0
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.
36.940.7
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.
16.722.9
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
92.187.4
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
95.694.4
PostTrainBench
21.623.2
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
75.561.1
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
77.346.5
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.
75.678.7
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.
78.474.7
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
72.177.9
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
OpenAI logoGPT-5 Chat$1.25$10.00128K tokens (~64 books)$34.38
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3.1 Pro Preview$2.00$12.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$45.00
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.6$5.00$25.001.0M tokens (~500 books)$100.00