Head to head
Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash Google | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $0.750 | $5.00 |
| Output $/M tokens | $3.75 | $25.00 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Max output | 66K | 128K |
| WM Score | 83 | 83 |
| Benchmark quality | 80.3 | 82.7 |
| Hosts serving it | 2 | 4 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 116 | 33 |
| Latency (ms) | 1846 | 1585 |
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Which should you pick?
Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash costs less per million input tokens — about 6.7× cheaper than Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6. Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.6 scores higher on measured quality. Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash takes a larger context window, which matters for long documents or big codebases. Prices here are live list prices; the same model can cost less on a different host, so check the model page for the cheapest offering.