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Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash

Full profiles: Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) and Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google): every benchmark, price and rank.

Updated · Data from 12 sources

As of 25 Oct 2026, Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) are neck and neck on quality (63.2 vs 63.5 on the BenchLeader Index, inside the ±4.4 margin of error), and Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) costs 6.7× less, which makes it the better buy for most workloads. Pick Claude Opus 4.7 for agents & tools (65 vs 48); pick Gemini 3.7 Flash for knowledge (68 vs 62).

Which to pick for…

The pick's numbers come first. Category scores on the BenchLeader scale (50 is the average model, 15 points one standard deviation). High confidence means a lead of half a standard deviation or more; under one point is called either.

Use casePickWhyConfidence
CodingGemini 3.7 Flash63 vs 61 category score; Arena WebDev 1590 vs 1555Medium
Agents & tool useClaude Opus 4.765 vs 48 category score; Terminal-Bench 80.2% vs 11.2%High
MathsClaude Opus 4.767 vs 63 category score; Arena Maths 1491 vs 1505Medium
ReasoningGemini 3.7 Flash67 vs 65 category score; Arena Hard Prompts 1509 vs 1519Medium
KnowledgeGemini 3.7 Flash68 vs 62 category score; MMLU-Pro 90.1% vs 89.9%Medium
Images and other mediaEither67 vs 68 category score; Arena Vision 1317 vs 1314Either
Chat quality (human preference)Either68 vs 68 on Arena votesEither
Lowest costGemini 3.7 Flash$1.50 vs $10.00 per 1M blended; agentic coding session $0.060 vs $0.400–
Fastest first answerClaude Opus 4.71.2 s (Claude Opus 4.7) vs 2.5 s (Gemini 3.7 Flash (high)) to the first answer token–
High volume on a budgetNeither flagshipA smaller model is usually the better fit: Cheapest good LLMs, Fastest LLMs–

Key differences

  • Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) are neck and neck on quality (63.2 vs 63.5, within the ±4.4 margin).
  • Claude Opus 4.7 is stronger in agents & tools, maths.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) is stronger in coding, human preference, knowledge, multimodal, reasoning, composite, long context.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) is 6.7× cheaper ($1.50 vs $10.00 per 1M blended).
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) streams 1.5× faster (88 vs 60 tokens per second).

At a glance

SpecClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.7 Flash
DeveloperAnthropicGoogle
Released16 Apr 202613 Aug 2026
Context window (tokens)1,000,0001,048,576
Compared atClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.7 Flash (high)
Open weightsNoNo
Price in / out / cached input per 1M$5.00 / $25.00 / $0.500$0.750 / $3.75 / $0.075

Category by category

Category scores on the BenchLeader scale: 50 is the average evaluated model, 15 points is one standard deviation. A gap under one point is called level.

CategoryClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.7 Flash (high)Leader
Reasoning64.867.3Gemini 3.7 Flash
Coding61.462.9Gemini 3.7 Flash
Agents & tools65.447.6Claude Opus 4.7
Maths66.763.3Claude Opus 4.7
Knowledge62.368.0Gemini 3.7 Flash
Human preference67.568.4level
Multimodal66.867.6level
Long context–65.9not comparable
Composite–73.2not comparable

Where sources disagree

Across the 33 benchmarks both have, Claude Opus 4.7 leads 17, Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 15 and 1 is a tie. Independent sources split: Claude Opus 4.7 leads on Arena Text; Gemini 3.7 Flash leads on AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2.

Overall indexClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.7 Flash (high)Leader
BenchLeader Index63.263.5neck and neck
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.230.9†39.1Gemini 3.7 Flash
Arena Text14941490Claude Opus 4.7

Each publisher runs its own tasks, harnesses and effort settings, so their overall verdicts can differ; BenchLeader reconciles them on one scale. † measured at another effort setting of the same model (the publisher did not test the one compared here).

Price, speed and latency

List prices blended at three input tokens per output token. Per-task prices use the token counts on the methodology page; suite cost is what Artificial Analysis paid to run its whole Intelligence Index.

MeasureClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.7 Flash (high)
Blended price per 1M tokens$10.00$1.50
Input / output per 1M$5.00 / $25.00$0.750 / $3.75
Cached input per 1M$0.500$0.075
Price per task: chat reply$0.0095$0.0014
Price per task: summarize a 30-page report$0.075$0.011
Price per task: code edit$0.068$0.010
Price per task: agentic coding session$0.400$0.060
Price per task: structured extraction$0.015$0.0023
Output speed60 tok/s88 tok/s
Time to first answer1.2 s2.5 s

Each model is compared at its best-ranked reasoning-effort setting. Claude Opus 4.7 scores 63.2 and takes 1 s to its first answer token; Claude Opus 4.7 (max) scores 62.4 in 23 s, Claude Opus 4.7 (high) scores 61.0 in 1 s. Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) scores 63.5 and takes 2 s to its first answer token; Gemini 3.7 Flash (medium) scores 63.1 in 2 s, Gemini 3.7 Flash (low) scores 60.3 in 2 s. Higher effort means more thinking before the answer: better scores, longer waits and more tokens billed. How reasoning effort changes scores and cost.

Every benchmark

132 benchmarks, grouped by category; each name links to the board and its leaders. † measured at another effort setting of the same model, shown for reference and not counted as a win.

MetricPublisherClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.7 Flash (high)
BenchLeader IndexBenchLeader63.263.5
Agents & tools scoreBenchLeader65.447.6
Coding scoreBenchLeader61.462.9
Human preference scoreBenchLeader67.568.4
Knowledge scoreBenchLeader62.368.0
Maths scoreBenchLeader66.763.3
Multimodal scoreBenchLeader66.867.6
Reasoning scoreBenchLeader64.867.3
Composite scoreBenchLeader–73.2
Long context scoreBenchLeader–65.9
Blended price $/MBenchLeader$10.00$1.50
Output speedBenchLeader60 tok/s88 tok/s
Time to first answerBenchLeader1.2 s2.5 s
Context windowBenchLeader1,000,000 tokens1,048,576 tokens
Reasoning
GPQA DiamondEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub86.4%†94.8%
Humanity's Last ExamScale AI / CAIS36.2%–
SimpleBenchSimpleBench61.7%–
Arena Hard PromptsArena (LMArena)15191509
LiveBench 2.0 ReasoningLiveBench–87.8%†
LiveBench 1.0 ReasoningLiveBench87.2%†87.8%
GPQA Diamond (AA)Artificial Analysis91.4%†94.5%
Humanity's Last Exam (AA)Artificial Analysis42.3%†47.9%
GPQA Diamond (Vals)Vals AI90.2%93.9%
Kagi LLM BenchmarkKagi LLM Benchmark73.3%–
ARC-AGI-1ARC Prize–95.5%
ARC-AGI-2ARC Prize–84.6%
ARC-AGI-3ARC Prize0.2%†–
CritPtArtificial Analysis12.0%†14.3%
Chess PuzzlesEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub41.0%†66.0%
Mystery Game PuzzlesEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub13.0%37.0%
LMCAEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub52.2%†50.4%
DTBenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub94.7%†96.8%
ForecastBenchForecastBench63.1%66.2%
Coding
SWE-bench Verified (Epoch)Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub83.5%†–
SciCodeSciCode54.5%†57.2%
WeirdMLWeirdML76.4%–
FrontierCodeCognition38.5%43.6%†
GSO-BenchGSO-Bench44.1%–
Arena CodingArena (LMArena)15461520
Show all 132 benchmarks
MetricPublisherClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.7 Flash (high)
Coding
Arena WebDevArena (LMArena)15551590
LiveBench 2.0 CodingLiveBench–80.5%†
LiveBench 1.0 CodingLiveBench82.1%†78.9%
SciCode (AA)Artificial Analysis–57.2%
LiveCodeBenchVals AI85.1%88.7%
IOIVals AI–67.8%
SWE-bench (Vals)Vals AI82.0%80.8%
Code MigrationVals AI43.9%34.8%
ProgramBenchVals AI0.0%0.0%
Vibe Code Bench v1.1Vals AI71.0%70.4%
SWE Atlas: Codebase QnAScale AI SEAL40.3%–
SWE Atlas: RefactoringScale AI SEAL48.6%–
SWE Atlas: Test WritingScale AI SEAL38.5%–
MirrorCodeEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub31.1%†–
DeepSWE v1.1Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub–65.3%
ALE-BenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub1323.0904.3
FrontierSWEEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub–20.3%
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (AA)Artificial Analysis–13.6%
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (AA)Artificial Analysis83.2%†85.8%
Agents & tools
Terminal-BenchTerminal-Bench80.2%11.2%
OSWorld-Verified 2.0OSWorld18.2%†–
Remote Labor IndexScale AI / CAIS–5.0%†
APEX-AgentsMercor49.2%†67.8%†
Arena AgentArena (LMArena)–-1.3
LiveBench Long AgenticLiveBench–28.3%†
LiveBench BrowserLiveBench–56.0%†
LiveBench Agentic CodingLiveBench50.7%†58.3%
Terminal-Bench HardArtificial Analysis51.5%†–
τ²-Bench Telecom (AA)Artificial Analysis88.6%†–
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals)Vals AI68.5%77.5%
MCP AtlasScale AI SEAL79.1%†–
HiL-BenchScale AI SEAL41.7%–
τ³-bench Bankingτ²-bench40.2%†–
τ³-Banking (AA)Artificial Analysis34.6%†32.8%
ITBench SRE (AA)Artificial Analysis46.7%†–
Analyst Agent (AA)Artificial Analysis43.8%†60.0%
CyberBenchVals AI–43.8%
Finance Agent v2Vals AI51.5%59.0%
Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1Vals AI6.7%8.8%
Legal Research BenchVals AI38.5%34.6%
SkillsBenchVals AI–65.9%
SREBenchVals AI–4.6%
Tax Agent BenchVals AI23.7%22.8%
Terminal-Bench 2.0 (Vals)Vals AI68.5%–
Terminal-Bench 4.0 (Vals)Vals AI–12.1%
Terminal-Bench ScienceVals AI–7.1%
Arena SearchArena (LMArena)1210–
PostTrainBenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub28.6%†–
ExploitBenchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub26.5%–
GBAEvalEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub43.8%–
Vending-Bench 2Andon Labs10936.8–
AutomationBenchArtificial Analysis–62.0%
GDP.pdf (AA)Artificial Analysis–23.6%
EnterpriseOps-GymArtificial Analysis–50.4%†
FACTS SearchGoogle–80.9%†
Maths
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub70.2%†71.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub31.7%†36.6%
OTIS Mock AIMEEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub86.7%†97.2%
ProofBenchVals AI54.0%†58.0%†
LiveBench MathematicsLiveBench92.8%†93.5%
AIME (Vals)Vals AI96.3%–
AIME 2026MathArena95.8%†–
HMMT February 2026MathArena93.9%†–
MathArena ApexMathArena40.6%†–
Arena MathsArena (LMArena)14911505
Knowledge
SimpleQA VerifiedEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub51.7%†69.2%
LiveBench 2.0 Data AnalysisLiveBench–68.0%†
LiveBench ResearchLiveBench–76.5%†
LiveBench 1.0 Data AnalysisLiveBench78.3%†68.0%
AA-OmniscienceArtificial Analysis27.3†26.5
MMLU-ProVals AI89.9%90.1%
LegalBenchVals AI85.3%87.3%
CorpFinVals AI66.1%–
TaxEvalVals AI75.3%74.7%
CaseLaw v2Vals AI68.4%–
Excel Modeling BenchmarkVals AI63.7%71.3%
MedCodeVals AI54.9%53.4%
MedScribeVals AI83.0%83.9%
EBR-benchEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub19.1%†–
GDP.pdfEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub21.0%†23.8%
AA-Omniscience: accuracyArtificial Analysis48.9%†55.3%
AA-Omniscience: non-hallucinationArtificial Analysis57.7%†35.5%
Instruction following
LiveBench LanguageLiveBench77.9%†85.5%
LiveBench Instruction FollowingLiveBench66.7%†79.9%
IFBenchArtificial Analysis58.6%†–
Arena Instruction FollowingArena (LMArena)14931487
Human preference
Arena TextArena (LMArena)14941490
EQ-Bench 4EQ-Bench1294–
Arena Creative WritingArena (LMArena)14821492
Arena Multi-turnArena (LMArena)15141489
Arena Longer QueriesArena (LMArena)15081501
Multimodal
Arena VisionArena (LMArena)13171314
LiveBench DesignLiveBench–73.2%†
MMMU-ProArtificial Analysis78.8%†85.5%
MMMU-Pro (Vals)Vals AI85.5%89.0%
MortgageTaxVals AI70.3%66.7%
SAGEVals AI56.1%49.2%
Blueprint-Bench 2Epoch AI Benchmarking Hub24.5%–
Long context
AA-LCRArtificial Analysis78.7%†81.7%
Arena DocumentArena (LMArena)1494–
MLCRArtificial Analysis–12.2%
Composite
Epoch Capabilities IndexEpoch AI Benchmarking Hub156.8158.0†
LiveBench 2.0LiveBench–67.2%†
LiveBench 1.0LiveBench76.5%†78.8%
AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2Artificial Analysis40.7†39.1
Vals RSI IndexVals AI19.1%†18.3%
Vals Multimodal IndexVals AI67.4%–

Data as of 2026-10-25. Best configuration of each model; every score links to its source on the model pages.

What changed

  • Claude Opus 4.7: 1 score revision.
  • Claude Opus 4.7: 1 new result (Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1).
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash (high): 2 new results (Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark v1, Vals RSI Index).
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash (high): input price moved from $0.38/M to $0.75/M (97% up); output price moved from $1.88/M to $3.75/M (99% up).
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash (high): 1 score revision; input price moved from $0.75/M to $0.38/M (49% down); output price moved from $3.75/M to $1.88/M (50% down).
  • Claude Opus 4.7: 1 score revision.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash (high): 1 new result (ForecastBench).
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash (high): BenchLeader Index 62.9 → 63.5.
  • Claude Opus 4.7: 1 score revision.
  • Gemini 3.7 Flash (high): BenchLeader Index 60.8 → 62.9.

Rankings: Best LLM overall · Best LLM for agents · Best cheap LLMs

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash: questions

Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Gemini 3.7 Flash?
Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemini 3.7 Flash (high) are neck and neck on quality (63.2 vs 63.5, within the ±4.4 margin). The BenchLeader Index combines every independent quality benchmark; the two are within the margin of error as of 2026-10-25, so check the category scores for your use.
Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.7 or Gemini 3.7 Flash, and will that change?
Gemini 3.7 Flash is cheaper today: $1.50 against $10.00 per million tokens, blended at three input tokens per output token. No price change has been announced for either.
Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Gemini 3.7 Flash for coding?
Gemini 3.7 Flash scores higher in coding (63 vs 61 on the category index, where 50 is average). On Arena WebDev, the top shared coding benchmark, it is 1555 for Claude Opus 4.7 against 1590 for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
Is Claude Opus 4.7 better than Gemini 3.7 Flash for agents and tool use?
Claude Opus 4.7 scores higher in agentic tasks (65 vs 48 on the category index, where 50 is average). On Terminal-Bench, the top shared agents & tools benchmark, it is 80.2% for Claude Opus 4.7 against 11.2% for Gemini 3.7 Flash.
Which is better for long documents?
Both take about 1M tokens: Claude Opus 4.7 1,000,000, Gemini 3.7 Flash 1,048,576.
Which has lower latency?
Claude Opus 4.7 answers first: 1.2 s against 2.5 s to the first answer token, as Artificial Analysis measures it. Reasoning effort drives most of this: a higher setting thinks longer before it answers.
Which is faster, Claude Opus 4.7 or Gemini 3.7 Flash?
Gemini 3.7 Flash streams faster: 88 against 60 output tokens per second.
Do independent benchmarks agree on Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash?
Across the 33 benchmarks both have, Claude Opus 4.7 leads 17, Gemini 3.7 Flash leads 15 and 1 is a tie. Independent sources split: Claude Opus 4.7 leads on Arena Text; Gemini 3.7 Flash leads on AA Intelligence Index v4.3.2.
When was Gemini 3.7 Flash released?
Gemini 3.7 Flash was released on 13 Aug 2026.