Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 4 Argon

$2.19 / task
Wins 4 of 18 benchmarks
$1.99 / task
Wins 7 of 18 benchmarks
Different efforts: medium · high · Compare all at high
AutomationBench-AA AutomationBench-AA: Agents orchestrate SaaS workflows through APIs; objectives receive credit only when the task has no guardrail violation
Opus 554.3
Gemini 4 Argon77.5
GDPval-AA (work tasks) 2.1 GDPval-AA (work tasks) 2.1: Real work tasks from many professions (reports, spreadsheets, analyses), graded against expert work
Opus 549.6
Gemini 4 Argon56.2
AA Analyst Agent AA Analyst Agent: Data-analyst tasks: the model explores data with tools and reports findings
Opus 5 · max53.8
Gemini 4 Argon48.8
Terminal-Bench 4.0 Terminal-Bench 4.0 · source setting 2: Agents use a terminal to complete executable coding, system administration and research tasks in the 4.0 suite
Opus 534.3
Gemini 4 Argon57.1
Terminal-Bench Science 0.1 Terminal-Bench Science 0.1: Agents complete expert-authored research workflows across five scientific domains in a terminal
Opus 5 · max28.6
Gemini 4 Argon52.9
AA-Briefcase 1.1 · Elo AA-Briefcase 1.1 · Elo: Agents produce professional deliverables; blind pairwise comparisons produce the source Elo rating
Opus 51,434.9
Gemini 4 Argon1,485.8
AA-LCR (long context) 1.1 AA-LCR (long context) 1.1: Questions that need reading and connecting facts across very long documents (around 100K tokens)
Opus 582
Gemini 4 Argon79.7
SWE-bench Pro (v2 full) SWE-bench Pro (v2 full): Agents resolve repository issues under the network-locked v2 protocol; full and 51-task Hard results are separate
Opus 5 · xhigh99.4
Gemini 4 Argon99.2
SWE-bench Pro (v2 hard) SWE-bench Pro (v2 hard): Agents resolve repository issues under the network-locked v2 protocol; full and 51-task Hard results are separate
Opus 5 · xhigh98
Gemini 4 Argon92.2
EBR Bench EBR Bench: Agents learn to play Earthborne Rangers across repeated playthroughs
Opus 5 · max45.7
Gemini 4 Argon64.8
Furniture Assembly Furniture Assembly: Models inspect furniture assembly photos, identify incorrect builds and locate the mistaken step
Opus 5 · max60.8
Gemini 4 Argon72.5
AutomationBench · Zapier run AutomationBench · Zapier run: End-to-end completion of business workflows using real SaaS applications
Opus 5—
Gemini 4 Argon51.3
τ³-bench · banking · 1.0.1 τ-bench official · 3-banking-1.0.1: Customer-service agents converse with simulated users, retrieve domain knowledge and change state through tools
Opus 5 · max48.7
Gemini 4 Argon—
τ³-Banking · AA τ³-Banking · AA: Agents retrieve banking knowledge and execute tools to resolve customer-support workflows
Opus 538.6
Gemini 4 Argon—
DeepSWE 1.1 DeepSWE 1.1: Agents change repository code to resolve software engineering tasks under the stated DeepSWE edition
Opus 568.9
Gemini 4 Argon—
EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA EnterpriseOps-Gym-AA: Agents complete stateful enterprise workflows in eight domains; final database state determines success
Opus 5 · max47.5
Gemini 4 Argon—
FrontierCode 1.1 FrontierCode 1.1: Agents implement changes in real repositories, graded against maintainer-defined requirements
Opus 5—
Gemini 4 Argon43.5
Harvey LAB-AA 1.1 Harvey LAB-AA 1.1: Legal agents work from case documents; every rubric criterion must pass and material hallucinations receive no credit
Opus 5—
Gemini 4 Argon3.9

Specs

SpecOpus 5Gemini 4 Argon
Input, per 1M$5!$2
Output, per 1M$25!$10
Cost per task?$2.19$1.99
Speed, tok/s5584
Context1M1M
WeightsClosedClosed
ReleasedJul 2026Oct 2026
See images✓✓
Read PDFsPartial✓
Hear audio—✓
Watch video—✓
Call tools✓✓
Force a tool callPartialPartial
Return strict JSON✓✓
Search the web?✓
Run code?✓
Use a computer??

What breaks when you switch

Opus 5 → Gemini 4 Argon
Synchronous output stops at 65,536›

With background false, output limits above 65,536 tokens return HTTP 400; stay at or below that limit.

Sampling parameters are ignored›

temperature, top_p and top_k are ignored; remove them from requests.

No explicit caching›

Explicit caching is unavailable; omit explicit cache requests.

Gemini 4 Argon → Opus 5
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