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Claude Opus 4.8 vs gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 from Google on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier reasoning model, optimized for complex engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It features strong multimodal capabilities, improved resistance to prompt injection, and a new Verbosity parameter to control token efficiency. With advanced tool use, extended context, and multi-agent support, Opus 4.5 excels in autonomous research, debugging, planning, and spreadsheet/browser operations.

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
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gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21
Google · text, image, audio, video → text

The latest version, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking mode, is an experimental model designed to generate the "thought process" that the model goes through during its responses. Therefore, Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking mode has stronger reasoning capabilities in its responses compared to the base Gemini 2.0 Flash model.

Input$0.076 /M
Output$0.304 /M
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Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Claude Opus 4.8
gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21
Input /M
$5
$0.076
Output /M
$25
$0.304
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
1,000,000
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Max output
128,000
0
Time to First Token
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Throughput
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Modalities
textimagepdf
textimageaudiovideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkinglong context
API Formats
Released
May 28, 2026
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

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Performance Past 3 Days

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Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21
$9.12 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.8, gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21?

gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21: $0.304/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking and long context.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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