Compare Claude Opus 5.5 from Anthropic and Gemini 4 Carbon from Google on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Claude Opus 5.5
Gemini 4 CarbonClaude Opus 5.5 is Anthropic’s latest flagship model. In Anthropic’s comprehensive alignment testing, Opus 5.5 is the strongest-performing model tested to date. It also includes the safety safeguards Anthropic has developed for its most capable models.
Gemini 4 Carbon is Google DeepMind’s multimodal model for complex coding, long-running agent workflows, and cybersecurity defense. Building on Gemini 4 Argon, it improves software engineering, vulnerability detection and remediation, multimodal understanding, and execution across challenging, multi-step tasks.
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LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.
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Gemini 4 Carbon: $10/M output tokens; Claude Opus 5.5: $20/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Gemini 4 Carbon: 1567; Claude Opus 5.5: 1546 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Claude Opus 5.5: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Claude Opus 5.5 accepts 1,000,000 and Gemini 4 Carbon accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 5.5 and 65,536 tokens on Gemini 4 Carbon.
Claude Opus 5.5 at 99.7 tok/s and Gemini 4 Carbon at 45.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Claude Opus 5.5 accepts text, image and PDF input; Gemini 4 Carbon accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input.
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