# Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 4 Carbon

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 4 Carbon across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-opus-5-vs-gemini-4-carbon
- Last updated: October 28, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Gemini 4 Carbon leads by point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence. Choose using the category evidence and your own workload tests.

## Summary

- Gemini 4 Carbon has the higher overall point estimate 88.42 to 79.69. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.
- The clearest category separation is in coding, where the averages are 71.2 for Claude Opus 5 and 82.2 for Gemini 4 Carbon.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is Chartography (no tools) in Multimodal & Grounded, with scores of 29.6% and 72.5%.
- Gemini 4 Carbon is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 4 Carbon |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Google |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | null | null |
| Overall Score | 79.69 | 88.42 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 82 | 9 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $5.00 / $25.00 | $2.00 / $10.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 78.8 (Supported · #3/134)
- Gemini 4 Carbon public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 4 Carbon | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | 42.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | 90.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | 95.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DRACO | 88.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp (10-agent, prerelease) | 93.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | 70.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | 85.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MCP-Atlas claim coverage | 89.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Anthropic harness) | 23.58% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Anthropic harness) | 93.74% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Harvey held-out) | 11.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Harvey held-out) | 94.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 80.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass@3 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass³ | 73.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified avg. turns | 23.5 turns | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | 26.0% | 53.9% | Gemini 4 Carbon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 84.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ApprenticeBench | 36% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MazeBench | 12% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.1 | 74.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.1 Offline | Coming soon | 81.5% | Coming soon |
| CWE-bench v1 | Coming soon | 71.0% | Coming soon |
| ExploitGym | Coming soon | 53.5% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Gemini 4 Carbon
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 71.2 (Supported · #10/156)
- Gemini 4 Carbon public-lane score: 82.2 (Supported · #3/156)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 4 Carbon | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Bug Hunt Bench | 27.0 fixes | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 96% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 79.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 89.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multimodal | 59.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 68.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 53.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | 63.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 52.0% | 61.2% | Gemini 4 Carbon |
| ProgramBench (episode 1) | 83.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | 93.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 3.2 | 70.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench v3 | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench CII v1 | 96.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 89.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 97.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| CursorBench 4.0 | 46.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| PostTrainBench v1.1 | 35.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 2.0 | 26.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 81 (#8/26)
- Gemini 4 Carbon public-lane score: 79.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 4 Carbon | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-1 | 97.50% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 90.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | 30.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GraphWalks BFS 256K–1M | Coming soon | 96.2% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 90.9 (#5/58)
- Gemini 4 Carbon public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 4 Carbon | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Chartography (no tools) | 29.6% | 72.5% | Gemini 4 Carbon |
| Chartography (tools) | 83.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (no tools) | 0.366 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools) | 0.821 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | 83.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (tools) | 85.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA | 78.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 66.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | Coming soon | 58.6% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Gemini 4 Carbon
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 81.4 (Supported · #9/178)
- Gemini 4 Carbon public-lane score: 88.2 (Supported · #2/178)

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 4 Carbon | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HLE | 64.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 56.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE-Verified | 54.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | 84.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (raw) | 67.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (length-adjusted) | 57.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | 59.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional (raw) | 73.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-solvable) | 90.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-difficult) | 49.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SpatialBench Verified | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SingleCellBench | 60.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProteinGym Hard | 47.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protein Design | 42.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Organic chemistry V2 | 61.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (troubleshooting) | 61.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (understanding) | 78.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 93.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 91.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Gemini 4 Carbon public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 4 Carbon | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GMMLU | 92.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MILU | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | 89.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Gemini 4 Carbon public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 4 Carbon | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gray Swan IPI (15 attempts) | 4.6% | 0.0% | Gemini 4 Carbon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 91.6 (Unranked · 7 rankable rows)
- Gemini 4 Carbon public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 4 Carbon | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IMO 2026 | 42/42 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RiemannBench (no tools) | 60.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| RiemannBench (tools) | 79.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Jun. 2026 (no tools) | 90.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Jun. 2026 (tools) | 91.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 85.614% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 73.171% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Opus 5 or Gemini 4 Carbon?

Gemini 4 Carbon has the higher overall point estimate. Conditional score ranges do not establish rank confidence.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 4 Carbon?

The widest category gap is in coding, where the averages are 71.2 for Claude Opus 5 and 82.2 for Gemini 4 Carbon.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 5 currently has 82 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Gemini 4 Carbon cover on BenchLM?

Gemini 4 Carbon currently has 9 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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