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Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) vs Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash

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

Anthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch) Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash
Vendoranthropicgoogle
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score87.356.1
Input Price$2.50/M$0.75/M
Output Price$12.50/M$3.75/M
Context Window1,000,0001,048,576
Max Output128,00065,536
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index83.856.1

Who wins by task?

TaskAnthropic: Claude Opus 5 (batch)Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash
SQL Generation 142 140
Code Review 147 142
Code Completion 118 132
Code Refactoring 149 145
Bug Fixing 151 146
Unit Test Generation 134 130
Code Documentation 136 136
Regex Writing 125 124
CI/CD Pipelines 130 126
Frontend Component Design 132 128
Data Analysis 136 132
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 135
ETL Scripting 139 135
JSON Extraction 121 131
Bulk Data Labeling 117 128
OCR / Document Parsing 135 133
Table Extraction from PDFs 135 133
Long-Document Summarization 149 146
Short-Form Summarization 117 125
Blog Post Writing 130 128

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

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