Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3 Opus leads with 3.2% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 1.5 Flash offers 656.8K more tokens in context window than Claude 3 Opus. Gemini 1.5 Flash is $89.25 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Opus is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude 3 Opus was developed as the most capable model in the Claude 3 family, designed to set new industry benchmarks across a wide range of cognitive tasks. Built to handle complex analysis and extended tasks requiring deep reasoning, it balanced frontier intelligence with careful safety considerations, representing the flagship tier of the Claude 3 generation.
Gemini 1.5 Flash was created as a fast and efficient multimodal model, designed to provide quick responses while handling text, images, and other modalities. Built for applications requiring low latency and high throughput, it balances capability with speed to serve real-time and high-volume use cases.
2 months newer

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
2024-02-29

Gemini 1.5 Flash
2024-05-01
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3 Opus

Gemini 1.5 Flash
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 9 common benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus

Gemini 1.5 Flash
Gemini 1.5 Flash
2023-11-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3 Opus
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3 Opus

Gemini 1.5 Flash

Claude 3 Opus

Gemini 1.5 Flash

Gemini 1.5 Flash