Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) vs Nano Banana 3 Pro

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) (Anthropic) against Nano Banana 3 Pro (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.

Nano Banana 3 Pro

Developed by Google DeepMind · 2.8 Billion Parameters parameters

Zero-latency mobile on-device reasoning, 82ms TTFT, offline audio-visual tool execution, and local Android system integration.

Metric Claude Opus 5.5 (Canary Checkpoint) Nano Banana 3 Pro
SWE-bench Verified 81.4% 58.6%
MMLU-Pro 94.2% 74.2%
MATH-500 97.9% 82.5%
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens 131,072 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $5.00 $0.00
Output Pricing (per 1M) $25.00 $0.00