# Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in 9 of 10 shared categories: General LLM, Reasoning, Coding, Coding › Agentic, Coding › Web dev, Long context, Vision, Factuality, and Abstraction (ARC).

Claude Opus 5: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

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

Claude Opus 5: closed weights.

Gemini 3.7 Flash: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in General LLM at #11 against #14.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Reasoning at #9 against #16.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 14, 2026, Gemini 3.7 Flash leads Claude Opus 5 in Science at #5 against #12.
- Which to pick, Coding: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Coding at #4 against #20.
- Which to pick, Coding › Agentic: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Coding › Agentic at #4 against #20.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Coding › Web dev at #6 against #25.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Long context at #9 against #14.
- Which to pick, Vision: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Vision at #12 against #14.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Factuality at #4 against #15.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 leads Gemini 3.7 Flash in Abstraction (ARC) at #3 against #6.

As of Oct 14, 2026, Claude Opus 5 is near state of the art, rank #4 in Factuality (since Oct 14, 2026; sources LMArena Text factuality; 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).
