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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview

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Gemini 3 Flash Preview wins 15 of 28 shared benchmarks. Leads in agentic · knowledge · math.

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agentic·Gemini 3 Flash Previewreasoning·Claude Opus 4.5arena·Claude Opus 4.5knowledge·Gemini 3 Flash Previewgeneral·Claude Opus 4.5math·Gemini 3 Flash Previewcoding·Claude Opus 4.5
Hype vs Reality
Claude Opus 4.5
#179 by perf·#9 by attention
OVERHYPED
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
#125 by perf·#5 by attention
DESERVED
Best value
10.2x better value than Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5
2.8 pts/$
$15.00/M
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
28.3 pts/$
$1.75/M
Vendor risk
Anthropic logo
Anthropic
$965.0B·Tier 1
Medium risk
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Google DeepMind
$4.20T·Tier 1
Low risk
Head to head
Claude Opus 4.5Gemini 3 Flash Preview
APEX-Agents
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +5.6
APEX-Agents · evaluates AI agents on complex, multi-step tasks requiring planning, tool use, and autonomous decision-making in realistic environments.
Claude Opus 4.5
18.4
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
24.0
ARC-AGI
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +4.7
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
Claude Opus 4.5
80.0
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
84.7
ARC-AGI-2
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +4.0
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 4.5
37.6
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
33.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +29.6
Claude Opus 4.5
1468.5
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1438.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +3.0
Claude Opus 4.5
1469.8
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
1472.7
Balrog
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +4.6
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
Claude Opus 4.5
43.5
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
48.1
Chess Puzzles
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +29.5
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
Claude Opus 4.5
7.4
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
36.9
DeepResearch Bench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +5.0
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
Claude Opus 4.5
54.8
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
49.8
Dtbench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +1.3
Claude Opus 4.5
83.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
81.8
FrontierMath-2025-02-28-Private
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +14.9
FrontierMath (Feb 2025) · original research-level math problems created by mathematicians, testing capabilities at the boundary of current AI mathematical reasoning.
Claude Opus 4.5
20.7
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
35.6
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.
Claude Opus 4.5
4.2
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
4.2
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +12.2
Claude Opus 4.5
4.9
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
17.1
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +16.8
Claude Opus 4.5
34.4
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
51.2
GeoBench
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +13.0
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
Claude Opus 4.5
75.0
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
88.0
GPQA diamond
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +4.5
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
Claude Opus 4.5
81.4
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
85.9
GSO-Bench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +16.7
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 4.5
26.5
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
9.8
Lmca
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +1.6
Claude Opus 4.5
52.3
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
50.7
Mystery Game Puzzles
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +4.4
Claude Opus 4.5
14.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
18.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +9.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
Claude Opus 4.5
86.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
95.5
Proofbench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +21.0
Claude Opus 4.5
36.0
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
15.0
MCP Atlas
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +4.9
Claude Opus 4.5
62.3
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
57.4
SciPredict
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +0.8
Claude Opus 4.5
23.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
22.2
SimpleBench
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +1.1
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
Claude Opus 4.5
54.4
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
53.3
SimpleQA Verified
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +25.0
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
Claude Opus 4.5
41.8
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
66.8
SWE-Bench verified
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +1.2
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 4.5
76.7
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
75.4
Terminal Bench
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +1.1
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 4.5
63.1
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
64.3
VPCT
Gemini 3 Flash Preview leads by +48.9
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
Claude Opus 4.5
10.0
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
58.9
WeirdML
Claude Opus 4.5 leads by +2.1
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
Claude Opus 4.5
63.7
Gemini 3 Flash Preview
61.6
Full benchmark table
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.5Gemini 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.
18.424.0
ARC-AGI
ARC-AGI · the original Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus, testing whether AI can solve novel visual pattern recognition tasks without memorization.
80.084.7
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.
37.633.6
Chatbot Arena Elo · Coding
1468.51438.9
Chatbot Arena Elo · Overall
1469.81472.7
Balrog
Balrog · benchmarks AI agents on text-based adventure games, testing language understanding, strategic planning, and long-horizon reasoning.
43.548.1
Chess Puzzles
Chess Puzzles · tests strategic and tactical reasoning by having models solve chess puzzle positions, evaluating lookahead and pattern recognition abilities.
7.436.9
DeepResearch Bench
DeepResearch Bench · evaluates AI on complex multi-step research tasks requiring information gathering, synthesis, and producing comprehensive analyses.
54.849.8
Dtbench
83.181.8
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.
20.735.6
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.
4.24.2
FrontierMath-Tier-4-v2-Private
4.917.1
FrontierMath-Tiers-1-3-v2-Private
34.451.2
GeoBench
GeoBench · tests geographic knowledge and spatial reasoning across countries, landmarks, coordinates, and geopolitical understanding.
75.088.0
GPQA diamond
Graduate-Level Google-Proof QA (Diamond set) · expert-crafted questions in physics, biology, and chemistry that are difficult even for domain PhDs.
81.485.9
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.
26.59.8
Lmca
52.350.7
Mystery Game Puzzles
14.118.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 · simulated American Invitational Mathematics Examination problems testing advanced problem-solving skills.
86.195.5
Proofbench
36.015.0
MCP Atlas
62.357.4
SciPredict
23.122.2
SimpleBench
SimpleBench · tests fundamental reasoning capabilities with straightforward problems designed to expose gaps in basic logical and spatial thinking.
54.453.3
SimpleQA Verified
SimpleQA Verified · short factual questions with verified answers, measuring factual accuracy and the tendency to hallucinate or provide incorrect information.
41.866.8
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.
76.775.4
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.
63.164.3
VPCT
VPCT (Visual Pattern Completion Test) · tests visual reasoning and pattern recognition by having models complete visual sequences and transformations.
10.058.9
WeirdML
WeirdML · tests models on unusual and adversarial machine learning tasks that require creative problem-solving beyond standard patterns.
63.761.6
Pricing · per 1M tokens · projected $/mo at 10M tokens
ModelInputOutputContextProjected $/mo
Anthropic logoClaude Opus 4.5$5.00$25.00200K tokens (~100 books)$100.00
Google DeepMind logoGemini 3 Flash Preview$0.50$3.001.0M tokens (~524 books)$11.25
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