Model comparison

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 4 Argon

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 56.5 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 17 shared benchmarks.

Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic

58.2

Rank #20 Confirmed

Gemini 4 Argon Google

56.5

Rank #24 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 17 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher in 5 categories and Gemini 4 Argon in 5 categories; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.6 leads 61.9 to 43.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is ProofBench: 50% for Claude Opus 4.6 and 99% for Gemini 4 Argon.

Side by side

Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 4 Argon specifications
Claude Opus 4.6Gemini 4 Argon
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index58.256.5
Released2026-02-042026-09-30
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M—
Max output128K—
Input $ / M tokens$5—
Output $ / M tokens$25—
Results tracked6821

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.2 (#20), Gemini 4 Argon: 62.0 (#9)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena WebDev15471678
LMArena Coding15361550
SWE-bench Verified78.7%—
FrontierCode26.6%—
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)75.6%—
SWE-bench Multilingual72%—
FrontierSWE—55%
SciCode—61.8%
GSO41.2%—
WeirdML78%—
ALE-Bench996.5—
AlgoTune1.47—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 51.1 (#4), Gemini 4 Argon: 49.2 (#8)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 4 Argon
APEX-Agents46.3%82.2%
Vending-Bench 28,01813,718
Terminal-Bench79.8%—
Remote Labor Index4.2%—
τ²-bench Banking27.3%—
Cybench93%—
DeepResearch Bench55.3%—
GBAEval44.1%—
LMArena Search1253—
METR Time Horizons78.9%—

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.8 (#23), Gemini 4 Argon: 44.2 (#47)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Hard Prompts15271548
ARC-AGI-269.2%—
SimpleBench67.6%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark83.6%—
NYT Connections (extended)92.1%—
ARC-AGI-194%—
CritPt—27.1%
Chess Puzzles17%—
EnigmaEval7.6%—
Thematic Generalization80.6%—
EBR-Bench12.7%—
Mystery Game Puzzles25%—
DTBench91.2%—
LMCA55.8%—
Epoch Capabilities Index155.24—
ForecastBench60—

Math Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 63.0 (#31), Gemini 4 Argon: 73.9 (#17)

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 61.9 (#26), Gemini 4 Argon: 43.9 (#89)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Expert15461553
GPQA Diamond90.5%—
Humanity's Last Exam34.4%—
SimpleQA Verified47%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12.2%—

Multimodal Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 37.3 (#74), Gemini 4 Argon: 46.5 (#14)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Vision1316—
Blueprint-Bench 2—54.4%
Furniture Assembly28.3%—
LMArena Document1507—

Multilingual Gemini 4 Argon leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 57.9 (#6), Gemini 4 Argon: 60.3 (#1)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Non-English14891523
LMArena Chinese15511610
LMArena Russian14971537
LMArena Spanish15101497
LMArena French1513—
LMArena German1502—
LMArena Japanese1484—
LMArena Korean1464—

Instruction Following Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.6: 79.5 (#4), Gemini 4 Argon: 80.1 (#2)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Instruction Following15231538

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Opus 4.6: 48.1 (#13), Gemini 4 Argon: 47.6 (#15)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Longer Query15201549
CL-bench20.7%—
CL-bench Life17%—

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.6 leads

Claude Opus 4.6: 73.5 (#10), Gemini 4 Argon: 71.4 (#19)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Opus 4.6Gemini 4 Argon
LMArena Text15031534
LMArena Creative Writing15051531
LMArena Multi-Turn15131557
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1809—
EQ-Bench 41223—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Opus 4.6 better than Gemini 4 Argon?

Claude Opus 4.6 is the stronger model overall, scoring 58.2 to 56.5 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Opus 4.6 or Gemini 4 Argon better for coding?

Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on coding benchmarks: 62.0 versus 57.2 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Opus 4.6 and Gemini 4 Argon share?

17 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Opus 4.6 has 68 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 4 Argon has 21.

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