Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort) vs Gemini 3.7 Flash (medium)

Anthropic · Google · catalog 2026-09-14

Trade-off: Gemini 3.7 Flash (medium) is cheaper ($0.574 vs $3.85/M); Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort) scores higher on intelligence (39.8 vs 39.6).

	Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort)	Gemini 3.7 Flash (medium)
Speed (tok/s)	47.6 measured	272.5 measured
Blended $/M	$3.85 derived	$0.574 derived
Intelligence index	39.8 measured	39.6 measured
TTFT (ms)	272 measured	437 measured
Context	—	—
Coding index	67 measured	72 measured
Agentic index	not measured for both

Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Low Effort) card · Gemini 3.7 Flash (medium) card · 3D observatory

Verdicts use price×intelligence dominance only, and only where both sides are measured; null cells stay null with their provenance (em-dash = not in catalog). Percentile-free by design — this page compares two models, not the field. Generated page — do not hand-edit.