Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

List-price comparison · Claude Opus 4.8 details · Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 details

For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06 costs 66% less — $550.00/mo vs $1,600.00/mo.

	Claude Opus 4.8	Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06
Input / 1M tokens	$5.00	$1.25
Output / 1M tokens	$25.00	$10.00
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)	$0.016	$0.0055
Context window	1M tokens	1,048,576 tokens
Max output	128k tokens	65,535 tokens
Tier	Flagship	Flagship
Provider	Anthropic	Google

Projected monthly cost

1,000 requests / month$16.00 vs $5.50 10,000 requests / month$160.00 vs $55.00 100,000 requests / month$1,600.00 vs $550.00

Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.

Claude Opus 4.8

Best-in-class for complex multi-step agentic workflows, long-horizon planning, and large codebase refactors. Strong instruction-following on ambiguous, open-ended tasks.

Highest per-token cost in the catalog and noticeably higher latency — reserve for tasks that genuinely need top-tier reasoning rather than routine completions.

Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 05-06

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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.