# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Gemini 3.8 Flash in 3 of 10 shared categories: Coding, Coding › Agentic, and Vision.

Claude Opus 4.8: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Gemini 3.8 Flash: $1.5 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.8: closed weights.

Gemini 3.8 Flash: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 3.8 Flash leads Claude Opus 4.8 in General LLM at #7 against #20.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 3.8 Flash leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Reasoning at #6 against #10.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 3.8 Flash leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Science at #4 against #27.
- Which to pick, Coding: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Gemini 3.8 Flash in Coding at #12 against #15.
- Which to pick, Coding › Agentic: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Gemini 3.8 Flash in Coding › Agentic at #12 against #15.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 3.8 Flash leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Coding › Web dev at #27 against #33.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 3.8 Flash leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Long context at #5 against #10.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Gemini 3.8 Flash in Vision at #13 against #15.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 3.8 Flash leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Factuality at #17 against #21.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 3.8 Flash leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Abstraction (ARC) at #1 against #12.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 3.8 Flash is state of the art on best per dollar in General LLM (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).