# Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 1.5 Pro 002

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Gemini 1.5 Pro 002 in 3 of 3 shared categories: General LLM, Math, and Science.

Claude Opus 4.6: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Gemini 1.5 Pro 002: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

Claude Opus 4.6: closed weights.

Gemini 1.5 Pro 002: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Gemini 1.5 Pro 002 in General LLM at #4 against #12.
- Which to pick, Math: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Gemini 1.5 Pro 002 in Math at #11 against #40.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Gemini 1.5 Pro 002 in Science at #32 against #111.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 is near state of the art, rank #2 in Reasoning (since Oct 15, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 1.5 Pro 002 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Math (since Sep 24, 2024; sources Humanity's Last Exam; methodology v1.0).