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.
Claude Opus 4.8
gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest and most powerful publicly available model. It is suitable for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic’s strongest model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agent programming, and highly autonomous work.claude-opus-4-8 does not display thought content by default; you need to set the additional parameter "display": "summarized" to enable it
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.
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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.
Claude Opus 4.8: 1.1s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
gemini-2.0-flash-thinking-exp-01-21 at 287.9 tok/s and Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
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.
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