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Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 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 2.5 Flash Lite Preview
Google · text, image, audio, video → text

gemini-2.5-flash-lite latest preview version

Input$0.1 /M
Output$0.4 /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 2.5 Flash Lite Preview
Input /M
$5
$0.1
Output /M
$25
$0.4
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
1,000,000
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Max output
128,000
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Time to First Token
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Throughput
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Modalities
textimagepdf
textimageaudiovideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
toolsfunction callingstructured outputs
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

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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Cost calculator

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

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview
$12.00 /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 2.5 Flash Lite Preview?

Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview: $0.4/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 2.5 Flash Lite Preview accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 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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