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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

List-price comparison ·Claude Opus 4.8 details ·Gemini 3.6 Flash details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Gemini 3.6 Flash is the cheapest — 70% less than the priciest here ($480.00/mo vs $1,600.00/mo).

 Claude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.6 Flash
Input / 1M tokens$5.00$1.50
Output / 1M tokens$25.00$7.50
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.016$0.0048
Context window1M tokens1,048,576 tokens
Max output128k tokens65,536 tokens
Quality score97/10074/100
TierFlagshipFlash
ProviderAnthropicGoogle

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Opus 4.8Gemini 3.6 Flash
1,000$16.00$4.80
10,000$160.00$48.00
100,000$1,600.00$480.00
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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 3.6 Flash

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