Models

Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemma 4 26B A4B It (free)

Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Gemma 4 26B A4B It (free) 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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Gemma 4 26B A4B It (free)
Google · text, image, video → text

Gemma 4 26B A4B IT is an instruction-tuned Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model developed by Google DeepMind. Featuring an expansive context length of 262,144 tokens, this model is built to handle highly complex and long-form tasks. While containing 25.2B total parameters, only 3.8B activate per token during inference, delivering premium quality with outstanding efficiency.

Input$0 /M
Output$0 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Claude Opus 4.8
Gemma 4 26B A4B It (free)
Input /M
$5
$0
Output /M
$25
$0
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
1,000,000
262,144
Max output
128,000
0
Time to First Token
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Throughput
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Modalities
textimagepdf
textimagevideo
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
reasoningtool callinglong context
API Formats
chat_completions
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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Throughput (tok/s)

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Cost calculator

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

Gemma 4 26B A4B It (free)
$0.00 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

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

FAQ

How large is each context window?

Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and Gemma 4 26B A4B It (free) accepts 262,144 input tokens.

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; Gemma 4 26B A4B It (free) accepts text, image and video input and supports reasoning, tool calling and long context.

Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemma 4 26B A4B It (free) 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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