Head-to-Head Model Comparison

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemini 4 Argon

Benchmarks, API Token Pricing, Context Window & Speed Comparison

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Claude Opus 5.5

Frontier-Flaggschiff-Modell

Claude Opus 5.5 von Anthropic ist ein KI-Modell für anspruchsvolles Enterprise-Reasoning, Softwareentwicklung und produktive KI-Workflows mit 1M Kontextfenster, 78 Token/s Durchsatz, einem Intelligenz-Index von 94/100 und $4/$20 pro 1M Toke

Intelligence Index94 / 100

Input Token:

$4.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$20.00 / 1M

Context Window:

1M tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

84.6%

Google

Gemini 4 Argon

Nativ Multimodale KI

Gemini 4 Argon von Google ist ein KI-Modell für nativ multimodale Verarbeitung von Text und Bild sowie visuelle Dokumentenanalyse mit 1M Kontextfenster, 115 Token/s Durchsatz, einem Intelligenz-Index von 97/100 und $2/$10 pro 1M Token.

Intelligence Index97 / 100

Input Token:

$2.00 / 1M

Output Token:

$10.00 / 1M

Context Window:

1M tokens

SWE-bench Verified:

81.9%

Wichtigste Unterschiede auf einen Blick

Gemini 4 Argon is 2.0x cheaper for API usage (input + output tokens combined).
Gemini 4 Argon is faster at 115 tok/s vs 78 tok/s.
Claude Opus 5.5 leads on SWE-bench coding (84.6% vs 81.9%).

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Feature	Claude Opus 5.5	Gemini 4 Argon
Intelligence Index Composite reasoning & knowledge score (0-100)	94	97
Provider	Anthropic	Google
Input Price Cost per million input tokens	$4.00 / 1M	$2.00 / 1M
Output Price Cost per million output tokens	$20.00 / 1M	$10.00 / 1M
Blended Price Weighted 7:2:1 cache:input:output per 1M	$3.08 / 1M	$1.47 / 1M
Context Window Maximum input + output tokens	1M tokens~1,500 A4 pages of text	1M tokens~1,500 A4 pages of text
Max Output Tokens Per single request	128K	1000K
Throughput Speed Tokens generated per second	78 tok/s	115 tok/s
SWE-bench Verified Real-world software engineering	84.6%	81.9%
GPQA Diamond Graduate-level reasoning	82.3%	81.5%
Cached Input Price Prompt caching discount per 1M tokens	$0.40 / 1M	$0.10 / 1M

Wer gewinnt in welcher Disziplin?

At-a-glance decision framework

Coding

Claude Opus 5.5

+2.7% SWE-bench lead

Cost

Gemini 4 Argon

2.0x cheaper monthly runtime

Speed

Gemini 4 Argon

+47% faster generation

Context

Tied

1M tokens window

Geprüfte Benchmark-Ergebnisse im Vergleich

Official evaluation metrics verified by independent third-party research labs.

Claude Opus 5.5Gemini 4 Argon

SWE-bench Verified (Autonomous Coding)

Industry benchmark evaluating real-world GitHub issue resolution and multi-file debugging.

84.6%vs81.9%

GPQA Diamond (Doctorate-Level Science & Math)

Challenging questions created by domain experts to test complex PhD-level reasoning.

82.3%vs81.5%

MMLU-Pro (Multi-task Language Understanding)

Hardened reasoning and academic knowledge benchmark with reduced lucky-guess probability.

91.5%vs90.8%

LMSYS Chatbot Arena Elo

Crowdsourced human preference evaluation based on blind, head-to-head model battles.

1507ptsvs1525pts

Humanity's Last Exam (Frontier Expert Knowledge)

Extremely difficult, closed-ended questions spanning the frontier of human expert knowledge.

19.8%vs18.9%

Terminal-Bench (Agentic Coding & Terminal Use)

Autonomous multi-step tasks executed inside a real command-line terminal environment.

66.4%vs57.4%

SciCode (Scientific Computing)

Research-grade coding problems drawn from real scientific and numerical workloads.

58.7%vs56.4%

LiveCodeBench (Competitive Coding)

Contamination-free competitive programming problems collected continuously over time.

83.1%vs80.5%

AIME (Advanced Math Competition)

American Invitational Mathematics Examination — multi-step Olympiad-level reasoning.

95.4%vs94.8%

Long-Context Reasoning

Accuracy when reasoning over very large inputs that fill the model context window.

92.6%vs96.4%

Generation Speed (Throughput)

Tokens emitted per second during active generation streaming.

78 tok/s vs115 tok/s

Latenz & Antwortzeit

Time to first token (TTFT) and estimated end-to-end response time for a typical 500-token response.

Time to First Token (TTFT)Lower is better

Claude Opus 5.51.40s

Gemini 4 Argon0.85s

Est. End-to-End Response (500 tokens)TTFT + generation time

Claude Opus 5.57.81s

Gemini 4 Argon5.20s

Interaktiver Token-Kosten-Simulator

Adjust sliders to calculate projected monthly cloud API spending with prompt caching discounts.

Daily Input Tokens100K / day

10K500K1M

Daily Output Tokens30K / day

5K150K300K

Prompt Cache Hit Ratio50% cached

0% (Cold)50%90% (Warm)

Claude Opus 5.5 Monthly API Bill

$24.60 / month

$4/1M in · $20/1M out

Gemini 4 Argon Monthly API Bill

$12.15 / month

$2/1M in · $10/1M out

Gemini 4 Argon saves approximately $12.45 / month (51%) under this workload.2.0x Savings

Claude Opus 5.5 · Strengths & Key Advantages

1M Kontextfenster und bis zu 128K maximale Output-Token (SWE-bench Verified 84.6% · GPQA Diamond 82.3%)
Hohe Generierungsgeschwindigkeit von 78 Token/Sekunde bei nur 1400 ms Erstlatenz (TTFT)
Effiziente API-Struktur ($4/$20 pro 1M Token) inklusive Prompt-Caching, Tool-Calling und strikter JSON-Ausgabe

Considerations & Trade-offs

Proprietäres Cloud-Modell ohne Möglichkeit zum lokalen Download der Modellgewichte
Bei hohem Anfragevolumen empfiehlt sich der Einsatz von Prompt-Caching und Batch-API zur Kostenoptimierung

Gemini 4 Argon · Strengths & Key Advantages

1M Kontextfenster und bis zu 1M maximale Output-Token (SWE-bench Verified 81.9% · GPQA Diamond 81.5%)
Hohe Generierungsgeschwindigkeit von 115 Token/Sekunde bei nur 850 ms Erstlatenz (TTFT)
Effiziente API-Struktur ($2/$10 pro 1M Token) inklusive Prompt-Caching, Tool-Calling und strikter JSON-Ausgabe

Considerations & Trade-offs

Proprietäres Cloud-Modell ohne Möglichkeit zum lokalen Download der Modellgewichte
Bei hohem Anfragevolumen empfiehlt sich der Einsatz von Prompt-Caching und Batch-API zur Kostenoptimierung

Token Use & Task Economics

Estimated cost and token consumption to complete one representative agentic task.

Metric	Claude Opus 5.5	Gemini 4 Argon
Cost per Task Estimated USD to finish one task	$3.85	$2.45
Output Tokens / Task Tokens generated per task	68K	75K
Reasoning Tokens / Task Thinking tokens burned per task	42K	36K

Technische Spezifikationen

Architecture, release timeline, capabilities, and modalities.

Feature	Claude Opus 5.5	Gemini 4 Argon
Official API Model ID (SDK)	claude-opus-5-5-20260901	models/gemini-4-argon
API Protocol	Anthropic Messages API + AWS Bedrock + Vertex AI	Google Gemini API (generateContent) + OpenAI-Compatible SDK
Release Date	2026-09	2026-09
Knowledge Cutoff	June 2026	June 2026
Architecture	Extended Autonomous Hybrid Reasoning Transformer	Pathways Multimodal Sparse Mixture-of-Experts
Parameters	Confidential	Confidential
Enterprise Rate Limits (RPM / TPM)	4,000 – 10,000 RPM (Tier 4 + Priority Tier) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM	10,000 – 30,000 RPM (Tier 5 Enterprise) · 4,000,000 – 10,000,000 TPM
Long-Context Tier (>128K/200K)	Standard rate up to 200K tokens; 2x input/output tier above 200K tokens	Standard rate up to 200K tokens; 2x input/output tier above 200K tokens
Prompt Cache Policy & TTL	$0.4/1M cached read (90% off); 5-min default & 1-hour extended TTL	Implicit + Explicit Context Caching at $0.1/1M with configurable TTL
Computer Use / GUI Agent	Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)	Supported (Screen coordinate grounding, browser & desktop GUI action loops)
MCP & Parallel Tool Calling	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema	Native MCP Client/Server ready · Parallel function calling · 100% Strict JSON Schema
Web Search Grounding & Sandbox	Native Web Search Citations + Code Execution Tool + MCP Connectors	Built-in Google Search Grounding + Managed Python Code Execution Sandbox
Official Fine-Tuning Support	Custom Model Tuning via Amazon Bedrock & Prompt Distillation	Vertex AI Supervised Adapter Tuning & Context Distillation
Multimodal Token Billing	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile)	Text BPE (~4 chars/token) · Vision (~258–765 tokens per image tile) · Audio (~25–32 tokens/sec) · Video (~258–300 tokens/sec)
Quantization & Min GPU VRAM	Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)	Cloud-Hosted Proprietary (FP8 / BF16 Tensor Core Cluster) · Zero Local VRAM Required (100% Serverless Cloud API)
Safety & Frontier Classification	Anthropic RSP ASL-2 / ASL-3 Constitutional Safety Evaluated	Google DeepMind Frontier Safety Framework Verified
Enterprise Compliance (ZDR/HIPAA/SOC2)	SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier	SOC2 Type II · GDPR · Zero Data Retention (ZDR) & HIPAA BAA Available on Enterprise Tier
Input Modalities	text, vision	text, vision, audio, video
Output Modalities	text	text

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemini 4 Argon: Schnelle Antworten (FAQ)

Which is more intelligent, Claude Opus 5.5 or Gemini 4 Argon?

Gemini 4 Argon is more intelligent. It scores 97 compared with 94 on the composite Intelligence Index.

Which model is faster?

Gemini 4 Argon is faster, generating 115 tokens per second compared with 78 tokens per second.

Which model is cheaper to run?

Gemini 4 Argon is cheaper at $1.47 per 1M tokens blended, compared with $3.08 (7:2:1 cache:input:output ratio).

Which model has lower latency?

Gemini 4 Argon has lower latency, with a time to first token of 0.85s compared with 1.40s.

Fazit

Sowohl Claude Opus 5.5 (Optimal für anspruchsvolles Enterprise-Reasoning, Softwareentwicklung und produktive KI-Workflows, Enterprise-RAG-Systeme und skalierbare API-Pipelines.) als auch Gemini 4 Argon (Optimal für nativ multimodale Verarbeitung von Text und Bild sowie visuelle Dokumentenanalyse, Enterprise-RAG-Systeme und skalierbare API-Pipelines.) überzeugen im Produktionseinsatz: Gemini 4 Argon führt bei komplexem Reasoning und Coding, Gemini 4 Argon liefert den höheren Token-Durchsatz und Gemini 4 Argon ist die kosteneffizienteste Wahl für große API-Workloads.

Häufig gestellte Fragen (FAQ)

Welches Modell ist besser für Coding und Reasoning – Claude Opus 5.5 oder Gemini 4 Argon?+

Im Gesamt-Intelligenzindex und bei Software-Benchmarks liegt Gemini 4 Argon vorn. Prüfen Sie oben die SWE-bench- und GPQA-Werte für Ihren Anwendungsfall.

Wie unterscheiden sich die API-Preise von Claude Opus 5.5 und Gemini 4 Argon?+

Claude Opus 5.5 kostet $4.00 / $20.00 pro 1M Input-/Output-Tokens, Gemini 4 Argon liegt bei $2.00 / $10.00. Beim gewichteten Gesamtpreis ist Gemini 4 Argon günstiger.

Welches Modell hat das größere Kontextfenster und die höhere Geschwindigkeit?+

Claude Opus 5.5 bietet 1M Tokens Kontext gegenüber 1M Tokens bei Gemini 4 Argon. Bei der Generierungsgeschwindigkeit liegt Gemini 4 Argon vorn.

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Wer gewinnt in welcher Disziplin?

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Latenz & Antwortzeit

Interaktiver Token-Kosten-Simulator

Claude Opus 5.5 · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Gemini 4 Argon · Strengths & Key Advantages

Considerations & Trade-offs

Token Use & Task Economics

Technische Spezifikationen

Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemini 4 Argon: Schnelle Antworten (FAQ)

Fazit

Häufig gestellte Fragen (FAQ)

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