Cline claims Gemini 4 Carbon is first model to top Claude and GPT, scoring 59 on AA Index at half the cost
zacharynado · x · 2026-10-29
Coding tool Cline says Gemini 4 Carbon is the first model to surpass Claude and GPT, beating Opus 5.5 on nearly every benchmark at half the cost — an 18% improvement over Argon in just two weeks.
The attached Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0 (9 evals incl. AA-Briefcase v1.1, Terminal-Bench 4.0, FrontierCode 2.0) ranks:
- Gemini 4 Carbon: 59 (top)
- Opus 5.5: 58
- GPT-6 Astra: 57
- Gemini 4 Argon: 50
- Fable 5.1: 49
Note this is a third-party claim based on the leaderboard, not an official Google announcement.
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