Claude 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
Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 03-25 Search
Compare Claude Opus 4.8 from Anthropic and Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 03-25 Search 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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Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.
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FAQ
Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 03-25 Search?
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 03-25 Search: $10/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Which responds faster?
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.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 03-25 Search at 97.7 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.
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 Pro Preview 03-25 Search accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking, web search, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs and long context.
Can I call Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 03-25 Search 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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