Which model is better: Claude 4 Opus or Gemini 3.1 Pro?
Gemini 3.1 Pro is 91.7% cheaper for input tokens ($1.25 vs. $15.00 per 1M tokens) and $10.00 vs. $75.00 for output tokens (12.0x cost advantage). In terms of operational performance, Gemini 3.1 Pro delivers lower response latency at 420ms TTFT (500ms faster than Claude 4 Opus) with 98 vs. 46 tok/s throughput. Claude 4 Opus leads coding evaluations at 77.2% SWE-bench Verified vs. 71.8% for Gemini 3.1 Pro and 87.1% vs. 82.4% on GPQA Diamond.
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Verified Performance & Unit Economics Delta (12 Dimensions)
Daily synchronized metrics across token pricing, prompt cache economics, latency, throughput, and 5 capability benchmarks.
Metric / Dimension
Claude 4 Opus
Gemini 3.1 Pro
Net Delta / Advantage
Input Cost / 1M Tokens
$15.00
$1.25
Gemini 3.1 Pro is 12.0x cheaper
Output Cost / 1M Tokens
$75.00
$10.00
Gemini 3.1 Pro (86.7% lower)
Prompt Cache Read / 1M
$1.500
$0.310
Gemini 3.1 Pro is 4.8x cheaper
Prompt Cache Write / 1M
$18.75
$1.25
Gemini 3.1 Pro is 15.0x cheaper
Context Window (Max Output)
205k (64k out)
1,049k (66k out)
Gemini 3.1 Pro (5.1x larger context)
Avg TTFT Response Latency
920ms
420ms
Gemini 3.1 Pro (500ms faster)
Generation Speed (Throughput)
46 tok/s
98 tok/s
Gemini 3.1 Pro (+52 tok/s faster)
SWE-bench Verified (Coding)
77.2%
71.8%
Claude 4 Opus (+5.4% lead)
GPQA Diamond (PhD STEM)
87.1%
82.4%
Claude 4 Opus (+4.7% lead)
MMLU-Pro (Multi-Discipline)
91.8%
89.5%
Claude 4 Opus (+2.3% lead)
MATH-500 (Quantitative Logic)
98.1%
96.8%
Claude 4 Opus (+1.3% lead)
Inference Value Score (IVR)
43.6 / 100
60 / 100
Gemini 3.1 Pro (+16.4 pts)
Interactive Monthly Token Economics & ROI Forecaster
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Choose Gemini 3.1 Pro (Google) for complex enterprise architecture planning, multi-file code refactoring, legal/financial corpus auditing, and multimodal research — offering a 1,048k context window, 420ms TTFT, and $1.25/1M input pricing ($0.310/1M cached reads).
Which is cheaper: Claude 4 Opus or Gemini 3.1 Pro?
Gemini 3.1 Pro is cheaper at $1.25/1M input tokens ($10.00/1M output) compared to $15.00/1M input ($75.00/1M output) for Claude 4 Opus.
Which model has lower TTFT latency and higher tok/s throughput: Claude 4 Opus or Gemini 3.1 Pro?
Gemini 3.1 Pro delivers faster first-token latency at 420ms TTFT (98 tok/s throughput) compared to 920ms TTFT (46 tok/s) for Claude 4 Opus.
How do Claude 4 Opus and Gemini 3.1 Pro compare on SWE-bench coding and GPQA Diamond reasoning?
On SWE-bench Verified software engineering, Claude 4 Opus scores 77.2% versus 71.8% for Gemini 3.1 Pro. On GPQA Diamond graduate-level STEM reasoning, Claude 4 Opus scores 87.1% versus 82.4% for Gemini 3.1 Pro (and 98.1% vs 96.8% on MATH-500).
When should you choose Claude 4 Opus?
Choose Claude 4 Opus (Anthropic) for mission-critical R&D, long-horizon autonomous coding tasks, complex theorem proving, and executive strategic synthesis — offering a 204k context window, 920ms TTFT, and $15.00/1M input pricing ($1.500/1M cached reads).
When should you choose Gemini 3.1 Pro?
Choose Gemini 3.1 Pro (Google) for complex enterprise architecture planning, multi-file code refactoring, legal/financial corpus auditing, and multimodal research — offering a 1,048k context window, 420ms TTFT, and $1.25/1M input pricing ($0.310/1M cached reads).
