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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 3 Pro

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Anthropic · 1M context | Google · 1M context

Pricing Comparison

Metric	Claude Opus 4.8	Gemini 3 Pro
Input / 1M tokens	$5	$3.5
Output / 1M tokens	$25	$14
Cached input / 1M	$0.5	$0.875
Context window	1M	1M
Provider	Anthropic	Google

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Input tokens

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Requests/day

💰 Gemini 3 Pro saves $2,100.00/month (40% cheaper)

AClaude Opus 4.8

Per request$0.0175

Daily$175.00

Monthly$5,250.00

Yearly$63,875.00

GGemini 3 ProCHEAPER

Per request$0.0105

Daily$105.00

Monthly$3,150.00

Yearly$38,325.00

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Choose Claude Opus 4.8 when…

✓ Cheaper cached price ($0.5 vs $0.875/1M)
✓ Optimized for: Complex reasoning & coding

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Choose Gemini 3 Pro when…

✓ Cheaper for RAG & document retrieval (lower input cost)
✓ 30% cheaper per input token
✓ Cheaper for generation-heavy workloads (lower output cost)
✓ Optimized for: Production reasoning at scale

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