Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview
Compare Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic against Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview by Google AI, context windows of 1.0M vs 1.0M, tested across 26 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 2.5 Flash PreviewRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Opus 4.6 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview is 42x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.6
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview
Input
$0.15
33× cheaper
Output
$0.60
42× cheaper
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview is cheaper on both — 33× input, 42× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
47%
Claude Opus 4.6 uses 20.7x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview
53%Vocabulary51%
35wSentence Length15w
0.68Hedging0.70
5.2Bold4.1
2.9Lists3.3
0.21Emoji0.00
1.34Headings0.09
0.03Transitions0.24
Based on 23 + 12 text responses
Research
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