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Model Pareto

Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Opus 5

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher than Claude Opus 5 in all 3 shared categories. Claude Opus 5 costs 2.5× as much as Gemini 4 Argon ($10.0 vs $4.00 per million tokens, blended 3:1 input:output).
Gemini 4 ArgonClaude Opus 5
Focus

Coding: quality vs price

Compared models are ringed; the other 117 ranked here are greyed.

Lower price is better. Pareto frontier: Nex-N2.5-Mini, Nex-N2.5-Pro, MiMo-V2.6-Flash, Ternary Bonsai 2 27B, MiMo-V2.6-Pro, Gemini 4 Argon, Claude Opus 5.5. 34 models are not plotted: GLM-5.3 Flash NVFP4, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash NVFP4, GLM-5.3 NVFP4, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813-nvfp4-DSpark, Xing4.0-29B-A4B, Ternary Bonsai 27B, Atria Dawn Preview, Maple-Preview, Bonsai 27B, Qwen3.8 27B NVFP4, Intern-S2-397B, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, Solar Open2 250B, Laguna S 2.1, Motif 3, Nex-N2-Pro, K-EXAONE 2.0 0803, K2 Horizon 375B A23B, A.X-K2, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B, Intern-S2-Preview (35B-A3B), North Mini Code, G9v3-39A5B, Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct, Qwen3.8 Flash-Next NVFP4, Devstral 2, K2 Horizon 7B, K2-Horizon-32B, Devstral Small 2, MiniCPM5-2B, Ling 3.0 Tiny, K2 Horizon 3.7B, K2 Horizon 0.9B, LFM2.5-2.6B.

34 models with no price data — shown in the strip at the left edge

GLM-5.3 Flash NVFP4, DeepSeek V4.1 Flash NVFP4, GLM-5.3 NVFP4, DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813-nvfp4-DSpark, Xing4.0-29B-A4B, Ternary Bonsai 27B, Atria Dawn Preview, Maple-Preview, Bonsai 27B, Qwen3.8 27B NVFP4, Intern-S2-397B, Phi-4-reasoning-plus, Solar Open2 250B, Laguna S 2.1, Motif 3, Nex-N2-Pro, K-EXAONE 2.0 0803, K2 Horizon 375B A23B, A.X-K2, K2 Horizon MoVA 36B A4B, Intern-S2-Preview (35B-A3B), North Mini Code, G9v3-39A5B, Falcon-H1-34B-Instruct, Qwen3.8 Flash-Next NVFP4, Devstral 2, K2 Horizon 7B, K2-Horizon-32B, Devstral Small 2, MiniCPM5-2B, Ling 3.0 Tiny, K2 Horizon 3.7B, K2 Horizon 0.9B, LFM2.5-2.6B

  • Best-value frontier (nothing is both cheaper and better)
  • Evidencestrong → weak
  • Estimated from other categories
  • Gemini 4 Argon
    Quality
    92.4
    Rank
    #2/119
    Price
    $4.00/M tok
    Speed
    —
    In$2.00▾Out$10▾/M tok

    vs Claude Opus 5: +10.9 quality · 0.4× price

  • Claude Opus 5
    Quality
    81.5
    Rank
    #7/119
    Price
    $10.0/M tok
    Speed
    54tok/s
    In$5.00Out$25/M tok

    vs Gemini 4 Argon: −10.9 quality · 2.5× price

Overview

Metric
Gemini 4 Argon
Claude Opus 5
Lab
Google DeepMind
Anthropic
Released
Sep 30, 2026
Jul 24, 2026
Weights
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input price
$/M tok
$2.00Best
$5.00
Output price
$/M tok
$10Best
$25
Blended price
$/M tok · 3:1 in:out
$4.00Best
$10
Output speed
tok/s
—
54
Context
tokens
1MBest
1MBest

Quality by category

0–100 within each category (100 = best tracked model). Rank is among all models ranked there. Click a row to focus it.

Metric
Gemini 4 Argon
Claude Opus 5
Coding
92.4±4.5Best
#2/119Verifiedbest value
81.5±3.2
#7/119Mixed
Writing & chat
94.7±5.9Best
#1/156Verifiedbest value
89.5±4.3
#3/156Verified
Vision
Not ranked
76.8±4.8
#11/91Verified
Hard reasoning
94.5±5.1Best
#4/200Verified
91.8±3.7
#6/200Verified
Agents
Not ranked
84.6±4.6
#6/178Mixed

Coding benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
Gemini 4 Argon
Claude Opus 5
SWE-bench Verified
day 0
~#2/14~93.3%Estimated
  1. #1Claude Opus 596.0%
  2. ~#2Gemini 4 ArgonEstimated93.3%
  3. #2Claude Sonnet 585.2%
estimated from related benchmarks
#1/1396.0%Lab-reported
  1. #1Claude Opus 596.0%
  2. #2Claude Sonnet 585.2%
anthropic.com · 2026-07-24
SWE-bench Pro (Public)
day 0
~#4/20~79.2%Estimated
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.589.9%
  2. #3Claude Fable 5.181.2%
  3. ~#4Gemini 4 ArgonEstimated79.2%
  4. #4Claude Opus 579.2%
estimated from related benchmarks
#4/1979.2%Lab-reported
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.589.9%
  2. #3Claude Fable 5.181.2%
  3. #4Claude Opus 579.2%
  4. #5Intern-S2-397B68.5%
anthropic.com · 2026-07-24
DeepSWE v1.1
day 0
#1/3478.8%BestVerified
  1. #1Gemini 4 Argon78.8%
  2. #2DeepSeek V4.1 Flash74.2%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-07
#22/3462.5%Verified
  1. #1Gemini 4 Argon78.8%
  2. #21GLM-5.3 Flash63.4%
  3. #22Claude Opus 562.5%
  4. #23Mistral Large 461.7%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
Terminal-Bench 4.0
day 0
#4/8857.1%BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Sonnet 5.563.6%
  2. #3GPT-6 Astra59.1%
  3. #4Gemini 4 Argon57.1%
  4. #5GPT-6.1 Sol56.1%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-02
#7/8849.0%Verified
  1. #1Claude Sonnet 5.563.6%
  2. #6Claude Fable 5.152.0%
  3. #7Claude Opus 549.0%
  4. #8GPT-6 Sol43.9%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
LiveCodeBench
third-party
~#2/25~92.1%Estimated
  1. #1Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash92.6%
  2. ~#2Gemini 4 ArgonEstimated92.1%
  3. #2Qwen3.8 Flash-Next91.9%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#7/25~86.5%Estimated
  1. #1Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash92.6%
  2. #6gpt-oss-120b87.8%
  3. ~#7Claude Opus 5Estimated86.5%
  4. #7Ternary Bonsai 27B82.8%
estimated from related benchmarks
SciCode
third-party
#3/10561.8%BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.9%
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.163.1%
  3. #3Gemini 4 Argon61.8%
  4. #4Claude Sonnet 5.561.0%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-02
#17/10556.4%Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.9%
  2. #16GPT-6 Astra56.5%
  3. #17Claude Opus 556.4%
  4. #18DeepSeek V4.1 Flash NVFP455.8%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AA Coding Agent Index
third-party
#2/1763.8BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.0
  2. #2Gemini 4 Argon63.8
  3. #3GPT-6.1 Sol62.9
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-07
#6/1759.7Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.566.0
  2. #5GPT-6 Astra61.6
  3. #6Claude Opus 559.7
  4. #7GPT-6 Sol56.7
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
Benchmarks in other categories (4)

Writing & chat benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
Gemini 4 Argon
Claude Opus 5
IFBench
day 0
~#3/134~82.8%Estimated
  1. #1MiniMax-M382.9%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B82.8%
  3. ~#3Gemini 4 ArgonEstimated82.8%
  4. #3Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash81.5%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#3/134~81.7%Estimated
  1. #1MiniMax-M382.9%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 2.4T A95B82.8%
  3. ~#3Claude Opus 5Estimated81.7%
  4. #3Qwen3.8-Omni-Flash81.5%
estimated from related benchmarks
MMMLU
day 0
~#2/5~92.3%Estimated
  1. #1Gemini 3.1 Pro92.6%
  2. ~#2Gemini 4 ArgonEstimated92.3%
  3. #2Gemma 4 31B88.4%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#2/5~92.1%Estimated
  1. #1Gemini 3.1 Pro92.6%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5Estimated92.1%
  3. #2Gemma 4 31B88.4%
estimated from related benchmarks
LMArena Text, Non-English (Elo)
third-party
#1/561512BestVerifiedFew votes
  1. #1Gemini 4 ArgonFew votes1512
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.1Few votes1496
lmarena.ai · 2026-10-02
#5/561483Verified
  1. #1Gemini 4 ArgonFew votes1512
  2. #4Muse Spark 1.3Few votes1487
  3. #5Claude Opus 51483
  4. #5Gemini 3.8 FlashFew votes1483
lmarena.ai · 2026-09-25
LMArena Text (Elo)
third-party
#1/561525BestVerified
  1. #1Gemini 4 Argon1525
  2. #2Claude Opus 5.51504
lmarena.ai · 2026-10-02
#6/561490Verified
  1. #1Gemini 4 Argon1525
  2. #4Muse Spark 1.31493
  3. #6Claude Opus 51490
  4. #7Kimi K31488
lmarena.ai · 2026-10-02
EQ-Bench Creative Writing v3 (Elo)
third-party
~#7/26~2064Estimated
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra2173
  2. #6GLM-5.32075
  3. ~#7Gemini 4 ArgonEstimated2064
  4. #7Claude Opus 5.52050
estimated from related benchmarks
#3/252133Verified
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra2173
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.12162
  3. #3Claude Opus 52133
  4. #4GPT-6 Sol2125
eqbench.com · 2026-09-24

Vision benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
Gemini 4 Argon
Claude Opus 5
MMMU
day 0
—
~#2/3~71.3%Estimated
  1. #1Claude Haiku 4.573.2%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5Estimated71.3%
  3. #2Llama 4 Maverick69.4%
estimated from related benchmarks
MMMU-Pro
day 0
—
#5/8584.7%Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.587.7%
  2. #4Gemini 3.8 Flash85.6%
  3. #5Claude Opus 584.7%
  4. #6GPT-6 Sol83.3%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
CharXiv Reasoning
day 0
—
~#2/9~84.8%Estimated
  1. #1Gemini 3.8 Flash86.2%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5Estimated84.8%
  3. #2Kimi K384.8%
estimated from related benchmarks
OmniDocBench v1.5
third-party
—
~#4/8~90.7%Estimated
  1. #1MiniMax-M391.6%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 27B91.1%
  3. ~#4Claude Opus 5Estimated90.7%
  4. #4Gemini 3.1 Pro85.3%
estimated from related benchmarks
GDP.pdf (AA)
third-party
—
#10/4321.6%Verified
  1. #1GPT-6.1 Sol32.0%
  2. #9Kimi K322.0%
  3. #10Claude Opus 521.6%
  4. #11GPT-5.521.2%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
Chartography
third-party
—
#12/2327.3%Verified
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra71.0%
  2. #11Muse Spark 1.327.6%
  3. #12Claude Opus 527.3%
  4. #13Kimi K326.6%
surgehq.ai · 2026-09-24

Hard reasoning benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
Gemini 4 Argon
Claude Opus 5
GPQA Diamond
day 0
~#2/184~96.1%Estimated
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra96.1%
  2. ~#2Gemini 4 ArgonEstimated96.1%
  3. #2Gemini 3.8 Flash95.3%
estimated from related benchmarks
#11/18393.2%Verified
  1. #1GPT-6 Astra96.1%
  2. #5Step 5 Preview93.5%
  3. #11Claude Opus 593.2%
  4. #12MiniMax-M392.9%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
Humanity's Last Exam
day 0
#3/18457.1%BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.561.4%
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.159.1%
  3. #3Gemini 4 Argon57.1%
  4. #4Claude Sonnet 5.555.0%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-02
#5/18454.9%Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.561.4%
  2. #4Claude Sonnet 5.555.0%
  3. #5Claude Opus 554.9%
  4. #6GPT-6 Astra54.7%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
AIME (latest)
day 0
~#2/32~99.1%Estimated
  1. #1GLM-5.3 NVFP499.5%
  2. ~#2Gemini 4 ArgonEstimated99.1%
  3. #2Inkling97.1%
estimated from related benchmarks
~#2/32~99.3%Estimated
  1. #1GLM-5.3 NVFP499.5%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5Estimated99.3%
  3. #2Inkling97.1%
estimated from related benchmarks
AA Intelligence Index
third-party
#5/8552.6BestVerified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.557.6
  2. #4GPT-6 Astra52.7
  3. #5Gemini 4 Argon52.6
  4. #6GPT-6.1 Sol51.8
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-02
#7/8550.8Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.557.6
  2. #6GPT-6.1 Sol51.8
  3. #7Claude Opus 550.8
  4. #8Muse Spark 1.348.1
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24

Agents benchmarks

Rank among models with a published score, and the leaderboard around each model. ~ italic = no published score, estimated from related benchmarks.

Metric
Gemini 4 Argon
Claude Opus 5
τ²-bench (Telecom)
day 0
—
~#2/118~98.3%Estimated
  1. #1Step 3.7 Flash98.5%
  2. ~#2Claude Opus 5Estimated98.3%
  3. #2DeepSeek-V4-Pro-0813-nvfp4-DSpark98.3%
estimated from related benchmarks
OSWorld-Verified
day 0
—
~#3/12~84.0%Estimated
  1. #1Kimi K384.8%
  2. #2Qwen3.8 27B84.3%
  3. ~#3Claude Opus 5Estimated84.0%
  4. #3Nex-N2.5-Pro82.2%
estimated from related benchmarks
OSWorld 2.0
day 0
—
~#3/5~55.3%Estimated
  1. #1GLM-5.3 Flash59.1%
  2. #2Kimi K358.3%
  3. ~#3Claude Opus 5Estimated55.3%
  4. #3GPT-5.6 Terra50.2%
estimated from related benchmarks
BrowseComp
day 0
—
#4/1790.8%Lab-reported
  1. #1Atria Dawn Preview92.5%
  2. #3Kimi K391.2%
  3. #4Claude Opus 590.8%
  4. #5Nex-N2.5-Pro89.7%
anthropic.com · 2026-07-24
GDPval-AA (Elo)
third-party
—
#3/871724Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.51866
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.11758
  3. #3Claude Opus 51724
  4. #4Grok 4.71715
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-10-07
AutomationBench-AA
third-party
—
#19/8156.6%Verified
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.569.5%
  2. #18DeepSeek V4 Pro (0813)56.7%
  3. #19Claude Opus 556.6%
  4. #20Qwen3.8 Max (0902)56.2%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
τ-Bench Banking (AA)
third-party
—
#12/8942.1%Verified
  1. #1Muse Spark 1.350.5%
  2. #11Grok 4.643.3%
  3. #12Claude Opus 542.1%
  4. #13GPT-6 Astra41.4%
artificialanalysis.ai · 2026-09-24
Not comparable across labs (1)
OSWorld 2.0 (Sept 2026 release)
day 0
—
#3/374.0%Lab-reported
  1. #1Claude Opus 5.581.8%
  2. #2Claude Fable 5.180.7%
  3. #3Claude Opus 574.0%
anthropic.com · 2026-09-22