Compare / Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

17 results from 5 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.

Claude Opus 4.6
Anthropic · profile
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Google · profile
Results compared
17
Shared sources
5
BenchmarkMetricClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 3.6 Flash
APEX-AgentsreportedTasks passed% of tasks 46.3%46.9%
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4951,453
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4941,470
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,5011,472
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,5011,469
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,5471,500
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,5131,473
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,5051,482
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,5001,472
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 31.934.0
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 89.6%92.8%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 39.9%40.8%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 78.0%80.0%
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)reportedCorrect answers% of questions 47.0%66.2%
UGI LeaderboardreportedRequested-length error% off the requested word count 3.0%9.0%
UGI LeaderboardreportedStyle adherencescore from 0 to 1 0.410.33
UGI LeaderboardreportedWriting scorescore out of 100 70.969.8

Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.