# Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in 4 of 6 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Long context, and Factuality.

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

Gemini 3.7 Flash: $1.5 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.6: closed weights.

Gemini 3.7 Flash: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in General LLM at #4 against #14.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Reasoning at #2 against #16.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 3.7 Flash leads Claude Opus 4.6 in Science at #5 against #32.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 3.7 Flash leads Claude Opus 4.6 in Coding › Web dev at #25 against #35.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Long context at #2 against #14.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Factuality at #3 against #15.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.6 is near state of the art, rank #2 in Reasoning (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, hard prompts); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 3.7 Flash is state of the art on best per dollar in Vision (since Oct 14, 2026; sources GDP.pdf; methodology v1.0).