Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) vs Gemini 4 Argon (High)
Which is better for the money: Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) by Anthropic or Gemini 4 Argon (High) by Google? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback)
Gemini 4 Argon (High) vs Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback): 1.9% less intelligence, 10.8% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 94.3% slower end-to-end.
| Metric | Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) | Gemini 4 Argon (High) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 53.6 | 52.6 | −1.9% Gemini 4 Argon (High) is 1.9% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $2,172.43 | $2,407.24 | +10.8% Gemini 4 Argon (High) is 10.8% more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 33.81s | 65.70s | +94.3% Gemini 4 Argon (High) is 94.3% slower |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $4.00 / $20.0 | $2.00 / $10.0 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text, Image |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.
- Gemini 4 Argon (High) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, Claude Opus 5.5 (High, Default Fallback) scores 53.60 for $2172.
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