The Known Good Updated 25 Jul 2026
claude-opus-4-5-20251101 vs Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview ·Anthropic vs Google

claude-opus-4-5-20251101 vs Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview — head-to-head comparison

claude-opus-4-5-20251101 profile Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview profile All comparisons
claude-opus-4-5-20251101 — Anthropic
Quality
#22 of 61
72based on 5 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
unranked
Output tokens per second
Price
unranked
Blended per 1M tokens
Cache hit price
unranked
per 1M tokens
Context
unranked
tokens
Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview — Google
Quality
#13 of 61
83based on 4 of 6 evaluations
Known Good Index
Speed
#68 of 316
88.9
Output tokens per second
Price
#205 of 340
$1.12
Blended per 1M tokens
In $0.50 · Out $3.00
Cache hit price
#67 of 206
$0.050
per 1M tokens (−90%)
Context
#27 of 345
1.05M
tokens (~1,600 pages)
Summary

On the Known Good Index, claude-opus-4-5-20251101 scores 72 and Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview scores 83 — a 12-point lead for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview. They share 4 published evaluations, with claude-opus-4-5-20251101 ahead on 2 and Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview ahead on 2.

Published pricing is tracked for Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview only, at $1.12 per 1M tokens blended.

claude-opus-4-5-20251101 is proprietary; Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview is proprietary. 2 tracked hosts serve one or both.

Generated from tracked data on 25 Jul 2026 · how these comparisons are computed →

At a glance
Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Known Good Index 72 based on 5 of 6 evaluations 83 based on 4 of 6 evaluations
Blended $/1M $1.12
Output tok/s 89
Context window 1.05M
Providers 0 2
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Quality

Known Good Index and the capability indices, side by side

IndicesComponents
Index scores

Each index is min-max normalised across tracked models and scaled 0–100 from published evaluations. We do not run these evaluations.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Known Good Index 72 83
Coding Index 78 77
Mathematics Index 86 93
Science Index 89 86
Reasoning Index 58
Agentic Index 78 77
Openness Index 5 5
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Quality Breakdown

Every evaluation both models report a published score for

Evaluations both models report

Bar = claude-opus-4-5-20251101 · marker = Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview · scores ingested from Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)

GPQA Diamond86 / 83
MATH / AIME86 / 93
SWE-bench Verified77 / 75
Terminal-Bench63 / 64

Right-hand figures read claude-opus-4-5-20251101 / Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview. claude-opus-4-5-20251101 leads on 2 of 4, Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview on 2.

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Arena Elo

Human preference rating from blind pairwise votes

Arena ratings

Elo from blind pairwise votes, ingested from Arena. Higher is better.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Text Arena 1,450
Text Arena (style controlled) 1,469
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Price & Cost

Published API pricing by token type

Per token typeCache discount
Published pricing

USD per 1M tokens. Blended is a 3:1 input:output mix. Live from OpenRouter, cross-checked against models.dev. Lower is better.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Input $/1M $0.50
Output $/1M $3.00
Blended $/1M $1.12
Cache read $/1M $0.050
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We publish blended price rather than cost-per-task. Cost-per-task requires token counts from an evaluation suite we do not run. Blended price is computed from published rates and is fully reproducible — see the pricing methodology.

Context Window

Maximum input accepted and maximum output emitted

Context and output limits

Provider-declared limits, from metadata via models.dev and OpenRouter. Higher is better.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Context window 1.05M
Max output tokens 66k
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Speed & Latency

Median throughput and time to first token across hosting providers

Output speedTime to first token
Throughput and latency

Medians across all tracked providers, derived from OpenRouter endpoint telemetry.

Metricclaude-opus-4-5-20251101Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Output tokens/s 89
Time to first token 2.0s
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Providers

Which hosts serve each model, and at what price and speed

2 hosts
Full provider benchmarks →
Provider claude-opus-4-5-20251101 blendedclaude-opus-4-5-20251101 tok/s Google: Gemini 3 Flash Preview blendedGoogle: Gemini 3 Flash Preview tok/s
Google · first party $0.56 85
Google AI Studio $0.56 60

Per-host pricing and telemetry from OpenRouter. A dash means that host does not serve that model.

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Sources for this page
Pricing & providers — OpenRouter Metadata — models.dev Benchmarks — Epoch AI (CC-BY 4.0)Elo — Arena Full attribution →