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Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash

Claude Opus 4.6 versus Gemini 3.8 Flash on list price and published Arena rating. Claude Opus 4.6 Arena 1501 · Gemini 3.8 Flash Arena 1499 Blended list price Claude Opus 4.6 $20.00 and Gemini 3.8 Flash $3.00 per 1M tokens.

Claude Opus 4.6AnthropicArena 1501$20.00 / 1M
Claude Opus 4.6 leads by 2 Arena pointsClaude Opus 4.6 costs 6.7x more
Gemini 3.8 FlashGoogleArena 1499$3.00 / 1M

Claude Opus 4.6

Anthropic

Input / 1M$5.00Output / 1M$25.00Arena1501Value1601,000 coding edits$30.00

Open model

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Google

Input / 1M$0.75Output / 1M$3.75Arena1499Value1941,000 coding edits$4.50

Open model

Claude Opus 4.6 leads by 2 Arena points. Claude Opus 4.6 costs 6.7x more, moving from Claude Opus 4.6 to Gemini 3.8 Flash. The 1,000-edit cost uses a planning assumption of 2,000 input and 800 output tokens, not a measured trace. Share this face-off. The link renders an Open Graph image of the two models.