Model comparison
Claude Opus 4 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 41 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 41 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4 scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads 71.7 to 27.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is ARC-AGI-2: 8.6% for Claude Opus 4 and 77.1% for Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is cheaper at $2 / $12 per million input/output tokens, against $15 / $75 for Claude Opus 4.
- Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.
Side by side
| Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Noometry Index | 43.1 | 56.7 |
| Released | 2025-05-22 | 2026-02-19 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | 1.05M |
| Max output | 32K | 66K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $15 | $2 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $75 | $12 |
| Results tracked | 56 | 71 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 4 leads
Claude Opus 4: 47.2 (#62), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 42.5 (#99)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 70.7% | 75.6% |
| GSO | 6.9% | 22.6% |
| WeirdML | 43.7% | 72.1% |
| LMArena Coding | 1442 | 1484 |
| AlgoTune | 1.33 | 2.02 |
| DeepSWE | — | 11.7% |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 67.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | 72% | — |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1447 |
| SciCode | — | 58.9% |
| MirrorCode | — | 8.9% |
| ALE-Bench | — | 1,161 |
Agentic & Tool Use Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads
Claude Opus 4: 34.8 (#42), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.7 (#34)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| DeepResearch Bench | 46.8% | 47.8% |
| LMArena Search | 1127 | 1211 |
| METR Time Horizons | 63.9% | 77% |
| Terminal-Bench | — | 80.2% |
| APEX-Agents | — | 35.3% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 26% |
| Cybench | 38% | — |
| PostTrainBench | — | 22% |
| BALROG | — | 57% |
| ExploitBench | — | 26.1% |
| GBAEval | — | 0.8% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 17% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 3,774 |
Reasoning Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads
Claude Opus 4: 27.3 (#121), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.7 (#12)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| ARC-AGI-2 | 8.6% | 77.1% |
| SimpleBench | 58.8% | 79.6% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 35.7% | 98% |
| CritPt | 0.3% | 17.7% |
| EnigmaEval | 5.6% | 36.8% |
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1399 | 1485 |
| DTBench | 81.6% | 97.1% |
| LMCA | 37.4% | 53.8% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 142.67 | 154.77 |
| ForecastBench | 61.1 | 59 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 74.3% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 97.4% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 55% |
| Thematic Generalization | — | 79.4% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 14.3% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 34% |
Math Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads
Claude Opus 4: 42.0 (#86), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 62.1 (#34)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 64.4% | 95.6% |
| LMArena Math | 1390 | 1485 |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 4.5% | 36.9% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 4.2% | 16.7% |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 59.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 26.8% |
| MathArena Final-Answer Competitions | — | 86.5% |
| ProofBench | — | 26% |
| Omni-MATH | 61.6% | — |
| MATH Level 5 | 85% | — |
Knowledge Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads
Claude Opus 4: 44.0 (#88), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 71.8 (#3)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 76.3% | 94.4% |
| Humanity's Last Exam | 10.7% | 46.4% |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 12% | 10.4% |
| LMArena Expert | 1386 | 1485 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 73.5% |
| MMLU-Pro | 87.5% | — |
| Confabulations | 15.9% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 70.8% | — |
Multimodal Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads
Claude Opus 4: 31.5 (#106), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 37.9 (#69)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 1192 | 1296 |
| GeoBench | 49% | — |
| VPCT | 38% | — |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 26.5% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 26.7% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1444 |
Multilingual Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads
Claude Opus 4: 48.8 (#138), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 57.0 (#12)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1362 | 1477 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1386 | 1529 |
| LMArena French | 1372 | 1487 |
| LMArena German | 1391 | 1491 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1331 | 1493 |
| LMArena Korean | 1321 | 1455 |
| LMArena Russian | 1392 | 1498 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1389 | 1479 |
Instruction Following Too close to call
Claude Opus 4: 77.1 (#28), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 77.0 (#32)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1406 | 1466 |
| IFEval | 91.8% | — |
Long Context Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads
Claude Opus 4: 39.6 (#172), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 47.4 (#18)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1422 | 1483 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | 61.1% | — |
| CL-bench | — | 20.8% |
| CL-bench Life | — | 16.9% |
Writing & Preference Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads
Claude Opus 4: 61.2 (#89), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 66.1 (#37)
| Benchmark | Claude Opus 4 | Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1377 | 1481 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1387 | 1482 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 1580 | 1491 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1396 | 1488 |
| Short-Story Creative Writing | 83.6% | — |
| WildBench | 85.2% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1142 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Opus 4 better than Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is the stronger model overall, scoring 56.7 to 43.1 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4 or Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is cheaper. It lists at $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens; Claude Opus 4 lists at $15 and $75.
Is Claude Opus 4 or Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview better for coding?
Claude Opus 4 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 47.2 versus 42.5 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview share?
41 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4 has 56 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has 71.