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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
Vendor	google	anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	62.3	94.7
Input Price	$0.15/M	$2.50/M
Output Price	$1.25/M	$12.50/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,000,000
Max Output	65,536	128,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	61.8	94.6
ai_index_agentic	44.8	81.5
ai_index_coding	81.4	100.0
eqbench	-	83.3

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)	Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 (batch)
SQL Generation	161	178
Code Review	157	179
Code Completion	133	121
Code Refactoring	156	176
Bug Fixing	166	193
Unit Test Generation	146	161
Code Documentation	140	148
Regex Writing	131	138
CI/CD Pipelines	137	151
Frontend Component Design	139	151
Data Analysis	157	178
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	149	158
ETL Scripting	147	164
JSON Extraction	145	138
Bulk Data Labeling	134	123
OCR / Document Parsing	143	149
Table Extraction from PDFs	143	149
Long-Document Summarization	153	171
Short-Form Summarization	129	123
Blog Post Writing	135	146

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →