Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) vs Gemini 4 Carbon
A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) (Anthropic) against Gemini 4 Carbon (Google DeepMind).
Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint)
Developed by Anthropic · Frontier Mixture-of-Experts Architecture parameters
Autonomous repository issue resolution (81.4% SWE-bench Verified), native 3D glTF/OBJ mesh synthesis, and sub-300ms time-to-first-token.
Gemini 4 Carbon
Developed by Google DeepMind · Carbon-Aware Frontier Transformer on TPU v6e parameters
Sub-watt green computing, 62% energy reduction per million tokens, carbon-aware datagrid routing, and eco-tier batch execution discounts.
| Metric | Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) | Gemini 4 Carbon |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 81.4% | 69.2% |
| MMLU-Pro | 94.2% | 84.6% |
| MATH-500 | 97.9% | 91.4% |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 tokens | 1,000,000 tokens |
| Input Pricing (per 1M) | $5.00 | $0.80 |
| Output Pricing (per 1M) | $25.00 | $2.40 |