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Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch) vs Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Who wins by task?

Task	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)	Google: Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite
SQL Generation	146	133
Code Review	155	132
Code Completion	120	131
Code Refactoring	157	136
Bug Fixing	159	136
Unit Test Generation	138	124
Code Documentation	141	131
Regex Writing	127	119
CI/CD Pipelines	134	120
Frontend Component Design	133	122
Data Analysis	139	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	140	133
ETL Scripting	146	128
JSON Extraction	121	131
Bulk Data Labeling	117	129
OCR / Document Parsing	136	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	136	131
Long-Document Summarization	158	137
Short-Form Summarization	118	123
Blog Post Writing	134	121

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →