Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Opus 4.5 leads with 32.5% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.5 Flash offers 744.2K more tokens in context window than Claude Opus 4.5. Gemini 2.5 Flash is $29.25 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Claude Opus 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Opus 4.5, released by Anthropic in November 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4.5 family built for demanding reasoning tasks, advanced code generation, and complex agentic workflows. It features a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking with configurable effort levels. Opus 4.5 targets deep analytical work, multi-step tool orchestration, and applications requiring sustained reasoning across long, complex tasks.
Google DeepMind
Gemini 2.5 Flash, released by Google in June 2025, is a large language model from the Gemini 2.5 family optimized for high-throughput, cost-efficient deployments with multimodal reasoning. It features a 1M token context window, hybrid thinking control, and native support for text, image, video, and audio input. Gemini 2.5 Flash targets latency-sensitive applications, document analysis, and high-volume API workloads that benefit from combined reasoning and generation in a single model.
4 months newer

Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google DeepMind
2025-06-17

Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
2025-11-01
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Opus 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks
Claude Opus 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude Opus 4.5
Claude Opus 4.5
2025-05
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Claude Opus 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Claude Opus 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google Cloud Vertex AI