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Claude Opus 4.5 vs Gemma 4 31B Instruct

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude Opus 4.5 wins:

  • Faster response time
  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Has reasoning mode

Gemma 4 31B Instruct wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Larger context window
Price Advantage
Gemma 4 31B Instruct
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.5
Context Window
Gemma 4 31B Instruct
Speed
Claude Opus 4.5

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 4 31B Instruct
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude Opus 4.5Gemma 4 31B Instruct
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicGoogle
ReleasedNov 2025Apr 2026

Claude Opus 4.5 Modalities

Input
fileimagetext
Output
text

Gemma 4 31B Instruct Modalities

Input
imagetextvideo
Output
text

Frequently Asked Questions

Gemma 4 31B Instruct has cheaper input pricing at $0.14/M tokens. Gemma 4 31B Instruct has cheaper output pricing at $0.40/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 42.9, compared to Gemma 4 31B Instruct's score of 38.7.
Claude Opus 4.5 has a 200,000 token context window, while Gemma 4 31B Instruct has a 262,144 token context window.
Claude Opus 4.5 supports vision. Gemma 4 31B Instruct supports vision.