Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3 Deep Think

Claude Opus 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#20); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Gemini 3 Deep Think Google

58.3

Unranked Sparse

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 0 categories and Gemini 3 Deep Think in 1 category; one gap is clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3 Deep Think leads 70.2 to 57.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 69.2% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 84.6% for Gemini 3 Deep Think.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3 Deep Think specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Deep Think
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index58.258.3
Released2026-02-042026-02-12
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked683

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Deep Think
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
LMArena WebDev1547—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
LMArena Coding1536—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Deep Think
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
APEX-Agents46.3%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—
Vending-Bench 28,018—

Reasoning Gemini 3 Deep Think leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Gemini 3 Deep Think: 70.2 (#14)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Deep Think
ARC-AGI-269.2%84.6%
ARC-AGI-194%96%
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
CritPt—25.7%
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1527—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Deep Think
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)66%—
FrontierMath Tier 426.8%—
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions78.5%—
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202594.4%—
ProofBench50%—
LMArena Math1519—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)40.7%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Deep Think
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—
LMArena Expert1546—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Deep Think
LMArena Vision1316—
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Deep Think
LMArena Non-English1489—
LMArena Chinese1551—
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—
LMArena Russian1497—
LMArena Spanish1510—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Deep Think
LMArena Instruction Following1523—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Deep Think
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—
LMArena Longer Query1520—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Gemini 3 Deep Think: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3 Deep Think
LMArena Text1503—
LMArena Creative Writing1505—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—
LMArena Multi-Turn1513—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Gemini 3 Deep Think?

Claude Opus 4.6 has enough public results to be ranked (#20); Gemini 3 Deep Think does not yet, so treat this comparison as directional.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 3 Deep Think share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3 Deep Think has 3.

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