Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite 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 2.5 Flash LiteClaude 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
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is a balanced model from Google, optimized for applications that require low-latency performance. It retains the practical capabilities of the Gemini 2.5 family, including configurable reasoning based on budget, integration with tools such as grounding via Google Search and code execution, multimodal input support, and an ultra-long context window of up to 1 million tokens, delivering a strong balance between efficiency, functionality, and cost.
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: $0.4/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Opus 4.8: 1527; Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 1424 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite: 0.9s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8 and 65,536 tokens on Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite.
Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s and Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite at 45.9 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 2.5 Flash Lite accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input and supports tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
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