Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09 2025 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 Preview 09 2025Claude 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
This latest 2.5 Flash model comes with improvements in two key areas we heard consistent feedback on: Better agentic tool use: We've improved how the model uses tools, leading to better performance in more complex, agentic and multi-step applications. This model shows noticeable improvements on key agentic benchmarks, including a 5% gain on SWE-Bench Verified, compared to our last release (48.9% → 54%). More efficient: With thinking on, the model is now significantly more cost-efficient—achieving higher quality outputs while using fewer tokens, reducing latency and cost (see charts above).
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 Preview 09 2025: $2.499/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 Preview 09 2025: 1428 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09 2025: 0.4s 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 Preview 09 2025 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 Preview 09 2025.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 09 2025 at 144.3 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 2.5 Flash Preview 09 2025 accepts text, image, video and audio input and supports tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
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