How do Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite compare on coding benchmarks?

The comparison table shows SWE-bench, SWE-Pro, SWE-Atlas, Terminal-Bench, DeepSWE, and coding agent index scores for both Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite when publicly disclosed.

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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: benchmark scores, pricing & comparison.

Q: Which is better: Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?

AskClash compares Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite side by side across SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, coding agent scores, token pricing, and context window so you can see which model wins on each benchmark.

Side-by-side Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite comparison across SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, coding agent scores, token pricing, context window, and AskClash RWT. Green marks the winner on each benchmark.

Open live leaderboard Claude Opus 4.8 model page Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite model page

Rank #4 vs #61AskClash overall scores 80.6 vs 14.2.

Pricing $5.00/$25.0 vs $0.30/$2.50Input and output token prices per 1M tokens when published.

Proprietary vs ProprietaryAnthropic vs Google.

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite benchmark comparison

Green cells highlight the winning model for each metric. Scores are cached from the AskClash LLM leaderboard snapshot.

Metric	Claude Opus 4.8	Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Overall Score	80.6	14.2
Leaderboard Rank	#4	#61
RWT	9.0	7.0
Coding Agent Index	72.5	—
HLE	57.9	—
GPQA	93.6	—
IFEval	62.2	—
SWE-bench	88.6	—
SWE-Pro	69.2	54.2
SWE-Atlas	82.5	—
Terminal-Bench	74.6	54.0
DeepSWE	59.0	—
OSWorld	83.4	74.0
MCP Atlas	82.2	—
Finance Agent	53.9	—
CharXiv	89.9	—
ARC-AGI 2	72.1	—
Tau2	94.4	—
MRCR	—	72.2
Input Price (per 1M tokens)	$5.00	$0.30
Output Price (per 1M tokens)	$25.0	$2.50
Context Window	1M	1M
Benchmarks Published	17	6

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite head-to-head charts

Claude Opus 4.8 leads 5 and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads 0 of 5 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper on a defined 1M-input / 200K-output workload. Charts show only benchmarks both models publish.

Claude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Overall

80.6Claude Opus 4.8

14.2Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

RWT

9.0Claude Opus 4.8

7.0Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

SWE-Pro

69.2Claude Opus 4.8

54.2Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Terminal-Bench

74.6Claude Opus 4.8

54.0Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

OSWorld

83.4Claude Opus 4.8

74.0Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Claude Opus 4.8

Input$5.00

Output$25.0

Workload$10

Context1M

Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Input$0.30

Output$2.50

Workload$0.80

Context1M

Workload = published cost of 1M input + 200K output tokens. Open the live leaderboard for interactive compare charts.

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How to read this comparison

Benchmark scores

Higher is better for all benchmark scores (SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, etc.). Green marks the model with the higher score.

Token pricing

Lower is better for input and output prices. Green marks the cheaper model per 1M tokens.

Coverage matters

Models with fewer disclosed benchmark cells may have inflated percentile scores. Check the benchmark cell count for context.

This comparison page is generated from the AskClash LLM leaderboard cache. Open the live leaderboard for real-time scores and interactive filtering.