Claude Opus 5 is Anthropic’s flagship model for demanding reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic work. It is particularly strong at end-to-end software tasks, code review and bug finding, visual analysis of charts and documents, complex office deliverables, and coordinating parallel subagents. The model maintains strong instruction following and tool use across extended tasks, while remaining effective at lower effort settings for workloads that prioritize latency and token efficiency.
Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Compare Claude Opus 5 from Anthropic and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview 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.
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is designed to further optimize the performance and reliability of the Gemini 3 Pro series, offering improved reasoning capabilities, greater token efficiency, and a more robust, factually consistent user experience. It is optimized for software-engineering behaviors and usability, and is also suitable for agent workflows that require precise tool invocation and reliable multi-step execution, enabling stable operation across a variety of real-world scenarios.
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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FAQ
Which is cheaper: Claude Opus 5, Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview?
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: $12/M output tokens; Claude Opus 5: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
How do their coding arena scores compare?
Claude Opus 5: 1533; Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: 1521 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Which responds faster?
Claude Opus 5: 1.4s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
How large is each context window?
Claude Opus 5 accepts 1,000,000 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 5 and 65,536 tokens on Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview at 86.8 tok/s and Claude Opus 5 at 62.5 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 5 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, structured outputs, long context and web search; Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search, deep search and long context.
Can I call Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview 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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