# Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 4 Argon

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Gemini 4 Argon in 0 of 7 shared categories.

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

Gemini 4 Argon: $4.000000000000001 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.8: closed weights.

Gemini 4 Argon: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon leads Claude Opus 4.8 in General LLM at #1 against #21.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Reasoning at #1 against #10.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Science at #1 against #27.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Coding › Web dev at #8 against #35.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Long context at #1 against #10.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Vision at #7 against #13.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon leads Claude Opus 4.8 in Factuality at #1 against #24.

As of Oct 15, 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 15, 2026, Gemini 4 Argon is state of the art in General LLM (since Oct 2, 2026; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).