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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-30.

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
Vendorgoogleanthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score62.494.3
Input Price$0.30/M$2.50/M
Output Price$2.50/M$12.50/M
Context Window1,048,5761,000,000
Max Output65,536128,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
Audio✓-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index60.291.9
ai_index_agentic44.377.8
ai_index_coding81.4100.0
eqbench-83.3

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash LiteAnthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
SQL Generation 161 177
Code Review 156 178
Code Completion 132 121
Code Refactoring 156 176
Bug Fixing 166 191
Unit Test Generation 146 161
Code Documentation 139 148
Regex Writing 131 138
CI/CD Pipelines 137 151
Frontend Component Design 139 150
Data Analysis 156 176
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 149 158
ETL Scripting 146 163
JSON Extraction 145 138
Bulk Data Labeling 133 123
OCR / Document Parsing 143 149
Table Extraction from PDFs 143 149
Long-Document Summarization 153 170
Short-Form Summarization 129 123
Blog Post Writing 134 146

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

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