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Claude Opus 4.6vs
Gemini 3 Pro Preview
Claude Opus 4.6 leads 7 of 12 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3 Pro Preview is 2.1x cheaper per token. Gemini 3 Pro Preview has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
7 – 5
Claude Opus 4.6 leads
Cheaper per token
Gemini 3 Pro Preview
2.1x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 3 Pro Preview
1.0M tokens
Providers
2 providers
Anthropic · Google
Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic · released 2026-02-05
textvision
Gemini 3 Pro Preview
Google · released 2025-11-18
textvisionaudiovideo
Quality
Benchmark matrix
12 shared · 26 only Claude Opus 4.6 · 12 only Gemini 3 Pro Preview| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4.6 | Gemini 3 Pro Preview | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 12 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 80.8% ↗ | 76.2% ↗ | +4.6 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| GPQA Diamond | 91.3% ↗ | 91.9% ↗ | -0.6 pt | Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
| Chess Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 17% ↗epoch run | 31% ↗epoch run | -14 pt | Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
| GSO Opt@1 (GSO) | 37.3% ↗ | 17.7% ↗ | +19.6 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| MMMLU | 91.1% ↗ | 91.8% ↗ | -0.7 pt | Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 94.4% ↗epoch run | 91.4% ↗epoch run | +3 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 51.6% ↗ | 47.6% ↗ | +4 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| SimpleBench (SimpleBench) | 67.6% ↗ | 76.4% ↗ | -8.8 pt | Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
| SimpleQA Verified | 47% ↗epoch run | 72.1% ↗ | -25.1 pt | Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | 78.7% ↗epoch run | 72.9% ↗epoch run | +5.8 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Vending-Bench 2 (Andon Labs) | 8017.59 ↗ | 5478.16 ↗ | +2539.4 | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| WeirdML (Håvard Tveit Ihle) | 78% ↗ | 69.9% ↗ | +8.1 pt | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Only Claude Opus 4.6 reports · 26 | ||||
| AIME 2026 | 96.7% ↗matharena | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | 1497.5 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| APEX-Agents (Mercor) | 46.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (Verified) | 68.8% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| EBR-bench (Epoch AI run) | 12.7% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 26.8% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 66% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| Furniture Assembly (Epoch AI run) | 28.3% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Agentic Coding (LiveBench) | 49% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Coding (LiveBench) | 78.2% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Data Analysis (LiveBench) | 69.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Instruction Following (LiveBench) | 63.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Language (LiveBench) | 83.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Mathematics (LiveBench) | 89.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LiveBench Reasoning (LiveBench) | 88.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena Vision (LMArena) | 1299.4 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| LMArena WebDev (LMArena) | 1545.9 ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MCP Atlas | 59.5% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (no tools) | 73.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro (with tools) | 77.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Mystery Game Puzzles (Epoch AI run) | 25% ↗epoch run | not reported | — | — |
| OSWorld-Verified | 72.7% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| tau2-bench Banking Knowledge (Sierra) | 27.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Retail | 91.9% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Tau2-bench Telecom | 99.3% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | 65.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| Only Gemini 3 Pro Preview reports · 12 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 95% ↗ | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | not reported | 37.5% ↗ | — | — |
| AIME 2025 (with code execution) | not reported | 100% ↗ | — | — |
| ARC-AGI-2 (ARC Prize Verified) | not reported | 31.1% ↗ | — | — |
| BALROG (BALROG) | not reported | 58.1% ↗ | — | — |
| CharXiv Reasoning | not reported | 81.4% ↗ | — | — |
| Humanity's Last Exam (with search and code execution) | not reported | 45.8% ↗ | — | — |
| MathArena Apex | not reported | 23.4% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU-Pro | not reported | 81% ↗ | — | — |
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Terminus-2 agent) | not reported | 54.2% ↗ | — | — |
| Video-MMMU | not reported | 87.6% ↗ | — | — |
| τ2-bench | not reported | 85.4% ↗ | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Opus 4.6 minus Gemini 3 Pro Preview in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Opus 4.6 | Gemini 3 Pro Preview | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.0M tokens | Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 66K tokens | Claude Opus 4.6 |
| Input price / 1M | $5 ↗ | $2 ↗ | Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
| Output price / 1M | $25 ↗ | $12 ↗ | Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.5 ↗ | — | — |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $30 | $14 | Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision · audio · video | Gemini 3 Pro Preview |
| Released | 2026-02-05 | 2025-11-18 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 46 | 25 | — |
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