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Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 41.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs 12× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Last verified . 39 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic

58.3

Rank #19 Confirmed

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Google

41.5

Rank #133 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 39 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in 10 categories and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite in 0 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 4.7 leads 66.7 to 25.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 75.8% for Claude Opus 4.7 and 10.3% for Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper at $0.30 / $2.50 per million input/output tokens, against $5 / $25 for Claude Opus 4.7.
  • Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 1M.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index58.341.5
Released2026-04-142026-07-21
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M1.05M
Max output128K66K
Input $ / M tokens$5$0.30
Output $ / M tokens$25$2.50
Results tracked6639

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 59.6 (#13), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 42.4 (#104)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena WebDev15581440
SciCode54.5%41.3%
WeirdML76.4%39%
LMArena Coding15181453
ALE-Bench1,323765.27
SWE-bench Verified83.5%—
FrontierCode38.5%—
GSO44.1%—
MirrorCode31.1%—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 47.9 (#10), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.7 (#107)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
APEX-Agents49.2%29.3%
GDP.pdf21%10%
Terminal-Bench80.2%—
OSWorld 2.018.2%—
τ²-bench Banking40.2%—
PostTrainBench28.6%—
ExploitBench26.5%—
GBAEval43.8%—
LMArena Search1233—
Vending-Bench 210,937—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 53.8 (#29), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 27.8 (#114)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
ARC-AGI-275.8%10.3%
NYT Connections (extended)39%60.4%
ARC-AGI-193.5%53.5%
CritPt12%0%
Chess Puzzles30%22%
LMArena Hard Prompts15061441
Mystery Game Puzzles28%19%
DTBench94.7%83.5%
LMCA52.2%37.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index156.25145.13
SimpleBench61.7%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark80.7%—
Thematic Generalization72.8%—
EBR-Bench19%—
ForecastBench60.3—

Math Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 66.7 (#26), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 25.9 (#264)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)70.2%26%
FrontierMath Tier 431.7%0%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202597.8%71.1%
ProofBench54%13%
LMArena Math14991433
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions73.6%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)43.8%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)22.9%—

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 62.6 (#23), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 50.1 (#72)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
GPQA Diamond90.2%83.3%
LMArena Expert15211435
Humanity's Last Exam36.2%—
SimpleQA Verified51.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.7: 41.2 (#38), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 41.1 (#40)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Vision13161268
Blueprint-Bench 224.5%—
Furniture Assembly33.3%—
LMArena Document1495—

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 57.3 (#10), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 53.5 (#63)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Non-English14801427
LMArena Chinese15311469
LMArena French15031451
LMArena German14951454
LMArena Japanese14721427
LMArena Korean14641407
LMArena Russian14941443
LMArena Spanish14951442

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 78.4 (#10), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 74.8 (#85)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Instruction Following14981420

Long Context Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 46.2 (#25), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 43.9 (#84)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Longer Query15051435

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.7 leads

Claude Opus 4.7: 75.1 (#8), Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite: 64.2 (#57)

BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite
LMArena Text14901435
LMArena Creative Writing14861420
EQ-Bench Creative Writing19141559
LMArena Multi-Turn15051445
EQ-Bench 41311—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?

Claude Opus 4.7 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.3 to 41.5 on the Noometry Index. Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite costs 12× less per token, which makes it the better buy when Claude Opus 4.7's lead doesn't matter for your workload.

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is cheaper. It lists at $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4.7 lists at $5 and $25.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 59.6 versus 42.4 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite does, with 1.05M tokens against 1M.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite share?

39 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.7 has 66 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite has 39.

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