Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental
Compare Claude Opus 4.6 by Anthropic against Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental by Google AI, in 20 community votes, claude opus 4.6 wins 88% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 1.0M vs 1.0M, tested across 42 shared challenges.
Web Design: Claude Opus 4.6 wins 88% of votes
Image Generation: Claude Opus 4.6 wins 100% of votes
Reasoning: Claude Opus 4.6 wins 100% of votes
Conversation: Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental are tied
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.6Winner
Gemini 2.5 Pro ExperimentalRunner-up
Pick Claude Opus 4.6. In 20 blind votes, Claude Opus 4.6 wins 88% of the time. That's not luck.
Claude Opus 4.6 particularly excels in Image Generation, Reasoning, Web Design. Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is 13x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Clear winner
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.6
Input
$5.00
Output
$25.00
Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental
Input
$1.00
5.0× cheaper
Output
$2.00
13× cheaper
Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental is cheaper on both — 5.0× input, 13× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
34%
Claude Opus 4.6 uses 20.7x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.6
Gemini 2.5 Pro Experimental
53%Vocabulary54%
35wSentence Length15w
0.68Hedging0.35
5.2Bold5.6
2.9Lists3.9
0.21Emoji0.00
1.34Headings0.39
0.03Transitions0.17
Based on 23 + 18 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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