Side by side

Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 3.5

Up to 4 models, normalised onto the same cost basis and scored through the lens you pick.

Cost of talking
Per minute$0.096Estimate$0.0083Estimate
Per hour$5.76$0.499
30-min interview$2.88$0.249
List price$15 / $75 per 1MEstimate$1.25 / $10 per 1MEstimate
Recruitment fit
Overall91/10084/100
VerdictThe best choice for rubric-based scoring, where consistency across a batch matters more than peak score.The cheapest credible way to process raw interview recordings without a separate transcription step.
Best for
Structured scoringBias-audit passes over model outputCandidate feedback drafting
Interview recording analysisMultilingual pipelinesBulk CV parsing
Watch out for
  • Opus pricing makes it unsuitable for first-pass parsing
  • Use Haiku for the cheap steps
  • Reasoning trails Opus 5 and GPT-6 on rubric consistency
Capabilities
Modalitiestexttext, audio, video
Context window200K1,000K
VariantsOpus 5, Sonnet 5, Haiku 4.5Pro, Flash, Flash-Lite
On HumanLikeNot yetCoworker
HumanLike evals
Greek transcription WER (Live sibling)0.03Our eval

Cost per hour assumes 150 wpm and a 40% AI speaking share. Hover a figure for its full derivation.