Gemini 4 Carbon vs Claude Opus 5.5: Release Comparison

Name: Intelligence
Creator: Artificial Analysis
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Comparison of the Gemini 4 Carbon and Claude Opus 5.5 releases: 2 and 5 models respectively, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across all 7 models.

For intelligence, Gemini 4 Carbon scores highest: Gemini 4 Carbon (High) at 59, against Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) at 58 for Claude Opus 5.5.
For output speed, Claude Opus 5.5 is fastest: Claude Opus 5.5 (Max, Default Fallback) at 96 t/s, against Gemini 4 Carbon (High) at 95 t/s for Gemini 4 Carbon.
For cost per task, Claude Opus 5.5 is cheapest: Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) at $0.98, against Gemini 4 Carbon (Medium) at $6.59 for Gemini 4 Carbon.

Model Playground

Releases compared


	Gemini 4 Carbon (high)	Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback)	Gemini 4 Carbon (medium)	Claude Opus 5.5 (xhigh with fallback)	Claude Opus 5.5 (high with fallback)	Claude Opus 5.5 (medium with fallback)	Claude Opus 5.5 (low with fallback)
Intelligence Index	59	58	58	57	52	48	35
Finance & Accounting	63	59	60	56	53	51	42
Strategy & Ops	61	61	58	59	58	56	48
Legal	62	58	59	55	52	50	43
Healthcare & Medical	--	58	--	56	52	51	45
Engineering	65	65	63	62	58	54	43
Economics	61	62	59	60	57	54	45
AA-Briefcase v1.1	1610	1801	1602	1761	1682	1622	1279
AutomationBench-AA	77.8%	69.5%	77.6%	65.0%	63.2%	61.2%	52.9%
Terminal-Bench 4.0	65.2%	59.6%	60.6%	59.6%	56.6%	52.5%	31.3%
FrontierCode 2.0	40.6%	46.4%	39.5%	43.8%	35.9%	33.1%	15.8%
AA-Omniscience v1.1	54	48	47	43	42	40	39
GDP.pdf	28.4%	26.2%	29.6%	26.6%	28.8%	25.6%	25.6%
HLE-Diamond	69.1%	67.9%	67.4%	64.0%	55.6%	51.4%	41.7%
CritPt v2 (Hard Subset)	63.0%	61.0%	63.5%	63.0%	58.0%	52.5%	33.5%
Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1	64.8%	59.0%	62.4%	61.9%	49.0%	43.3%	24.3%

Cost per TaskUSD	$7.76	$10.04	$6.59	$6.05	$3.46	$2.45	$0.98
Input PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00	$4.00
Output PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$20.00	$20.00	$20.00	$20.00	$20.00	$20.00	$20.00
Cache Hit PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20	$0.20
Cache Write PriceUSD/1M Tokens	$4.00	$5.00	$4.00	$5.00	$5.00	$5.00	$5.00

Output SpeedTokens/s	95	96	--	82	80	80	79
Time to First Tokens	137.57	728.68	--	128.76	47.50	19.85	10.33
Time to First Answer Tokens	137.57	728.68	--	128.76	47.50	19.85	10.33
End-to-End Response Times	142.86	733.91	--	134.85	53.79	26.11	16.65
Time per Tasks	1,295.46	1,136.95	--	785.05	471.95	340.22	149.58

Context Window	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M	1M
Creator	Google	Anthropic	Google	Anthropic	Anthropic	Anthropic	Anthropic
License	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary	Proprietary
Input Modality	Supports: text, image, speech, and video	Supports: text and image	Supports: text, image, speech, and video	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image	Supports: text and image
Output Modality	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text	Supports: text
Providers

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Intelligence

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Higher is better

No publicly available API

Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

No publicly available API

Cost per Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Lower is better

No publicly available API

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 incorporates 9 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), and Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1

No publicly available API

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 includes: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AutomationBench-AA, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf, HLE-Diamond, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1. See Intelligence Index methodology for further details, including a breakdown of each evaluation and how we run them.

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · Weighted average cost (USD) per Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index task

Most attractive quadrant

Gemini 4 Carbon

Claude Opus 5.5

Pareto line

AA-Briefcase v1.1

AutomationBench-AA

Cost per Task (USD, Log Scale)

Weighted average cost per Intelligence Index task. Each evaluation’s cost is calculated from input, cache hit, cache write, reasoning, and answer token prices, divided by task count, and weighted by its Intelligence Index weight.

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Weighted average cost (USD) per Intelligence Index task · Segmented by token type · Lower is better

No publicly available API

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output tokens per second · Higher is better

No publicly available API

Tokens per second received while the model is generating tokens (ie. after first chunk has been received from the API for models which support streaming).

Figures represent performance of the model's first-party API or the median across providers where a first-party API is not available.

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Measures the performance of models on specific capabilities and industries

Finance & Accounting Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, AutomationBench-AA, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Strategy & Ops Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AutomationBench-AA, AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Legal Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf, AutomationBench-AA · Higher is better

Healthcare & Medical Index

Incorporates 5 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, AA-Briefcase v1.1, MLCR-AA, AutomationBench-AA, HLE-Diamond · Higher is better

Engineering Index

Incorporates 7 evaluations: AA-Omniscience v1.1, CritPt v2 (Hard Subset), Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1, HLE-Diamond, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0, AA-Briefcase v1.1 · Higher is better

Economics Index

Incorporates 4 evaluations: AA-Briefcase v1.1, AA-Omniscience v1.1, HLE-Diamond, GDP.pdf · Higher is better

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Personality Indexes

Each axis is one of 8 personality indexes: the mean of its traits’ Elo z-scores, percentile ranked from 1 to 100 across all models evaluated in the benchmark

Gemini 4 Carbon vs Claude Opus 5.5: Release Comparison

Intelligence

Speed

Cost per Task

IntelligenceUpdated

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Intelligence Index vs. Cost per Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index

Cost

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Cost per Intelligence Index Task

Speed & Latency

Output Speed

Output Speed

Model Performance Representation

Capability Scores

Capability Indexes

Benchmarks

AA-PersonalityBenchNew

Personality Indexes