So 2.5x the speed at 6x the price [1].

Quite a premium for speed. Especially when Gemini 3 Pro is 1.8x the tokens/sec speed (of regular-speed Opus 4.6) at 0.45x the price [2]. Though it's worse at coding, and Gemini CLI doesn't have the agentic strength of Claude Code, yet.

[1] - https://x.com/claudeai/status/2020207322124132504 [2] - https://artificialanalysis.ai/leaderboards/models