Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash Comparison Table
Evals updated October 13, 2026Pricing updated October 17, 2026
| Property | Claude Opus 4.6 | Gemini 3.8 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Feb 2026 | Sep 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Parameters | Unknown | Unknown |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | commercial use per vendor terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $5.00 | $0.825 |
| Output $/1M | $25.00 | $4.13 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | Demo |
| Chart Question Answering | Supported | Supported |
| Classification | Demo | Demo |
| Document Question Answering | Supported | Supported |
| Image Tagging | Supported | Supported |
| Multi-Label Classification | Supported | Supported |
| Object Detection | Demo | Demo |
| OCR | Demo | Demo |
| Vision Language | Supported | Supported |
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Demo |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | Supported | Supported |
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | Supported | Supported |
| Multimodal Vision | Supported | Supported |
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | Not evaluated | 79.8% |
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.0045 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 12.76s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | – | 68.1% ±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 67.3 to 69.0 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 74.8% ±1.1, Mean of 3 runs, range 73.4 to 75.6 |
| Counting (low) | – | 78.8% ±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 75.7 to 81.1 |
| Counting (high) | – | 79.3% ±1.4, Mean of 3 runs, range 78.4 to 81.1 |
| Identification (low) | – | 97.9% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 100.0 |
| Identification (high) | – | 96.9% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9 |
| OCR (low) | – | 72.8% |
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| OCR (high) | – | 78.7% |
| by category |
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| Reasoning (low) | – | 81.2% ±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 80.8 to 81.5 |
| Reasoning (high) | – | 84.5% ±1.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 83.4 to 85.4 |
Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash: Overview
Claude Opus 4.6 is the flagship large language model from Anthropic, released on 2026-02-05 for advanced reasoning, complex coding, and enterprise agent workflows. It supports text and image inputs via API, offers a 200K-token standard context window with a 1M-token beta option, and enables outputs up to 128K tokens, with adaptive reasoning and context compaction for sustained tasks.
As of 2026-02-17, Anthropic also released Claude Sonnet 4.6, extending the 1M-token context window to a broader tier. Opus remains positioned for maximum depth and benchmark performance, while Sonnet 4.6 brings long-context capability to more cost- and latency-sensitive production use cases.
Gemini 3.8 Flash is a natively multimodal reasoning model in Google's Gemini 3 series, positioned as the speed and cost oriented Flash tier while targeting long-horizon software engineering, autonomous agents, and enterprise workflows. It accepts text, images, video, audio, and PDF documents in a single request and returns text, with an input limit of 1,048,576 tokens and an output limit of 65,536 tokens. Thinking is configurable at low, medium, and high levels, and the model supports function calling, code execution, structured outputs, context caching, search and Maps grounding, file search, and computer use in preview. Image generation, audio generation, and the Live API are not supported.
On vision oriented evaluations the model reports 86.2% on CharXiv Reasoning for chart and figure synthesis and 87.8% on LVBench for long video understanding in agentic mode, alongside 90.8% on Terminal-Bench 2.1 and 61.6% on SWE-Bench Pro for coding. Following Gemini API conventions, it can localize objects by emitting bounding boxes as [ymin, xmin, ymax, xmax] integers normalized to a 0 to 1000 range, which supports prompt driven detection and grounding in addition to captioning, document parsing, and visual question answering. The knowledge cutoff is March 2026, though coverage in some domains reflects the January 2025 cutoff shared across the Gemini 3 family.
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