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claude-opus-5 vs gemini-3.6-flash

Output tokens cost $25.00 per million on claude-opus-5 and $7.50 per million on gemini-3.6-flash. Input tokens cost $5.00 per million on claude-opus-5 and $1.50 per million on gemini-3.6-flash. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.50 per million on claude-opus-5 and $0.15 per million on gemini-3.6-flash. Context windows are 1,000,000 tokens on claude-opus-5 and 1,048,576 tokens on gemini-3.6-flash. First-token latency measured on AIHubMix is 1.4s on claude-opus-5 and 3.1s on gemini-3.6-flash. Measured output throughput is 56.7 tokens/s on claude-opus-5 and 123.8 tokens/s on gemini-3.6-flash.

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Anthropic
claude-opus-5
Anthropic · text, image → text

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.

Input$5.00 /M
Output$25.00 /M
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Google
gemini-3.6-flash
Google · text, image, audio, video → text

Gemini 3.6 Flash provides sustained frontier-level intelligence optimized for real-world tasks at a higher speed and lower cost. Designed for the agentic era, it excels at code generation, agentic execution, and spatial reasoning. This model is particularly effective for rapid agentic loops involving complex coding cycles and iterations.

Input$1.50 /M
Output$7.50 /M
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Specs & Pricing

Prices are per million tokens. Latency and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

claude-opus-5
gemini-3.6-flash
Input price
$5.00
$1.50
Output price
$25.00
$7.50
Cache read
$0.50
$0.15
Context window
1,000,000
1,048,576
Max output
128,000
65,536
Latency (first token)
1.4 s
3.1 s
Throughput
56.7 TPS
123.8 TPS
Modalities
textimage
textimageaudiovideo
Features
thinkingtoolsstructured outputslong contextweb
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong context
Endpoints
chat_completions · claude_api · responses
chat_completions · gemini_api · claude_api

Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Usage on AIHubMix last 30 days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Live Performance last 3 days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Cost Calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

gemini-3.6-flash
$203 /mo
claude-opus-5
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: claude-opus-5, gemini-3.6-flash?

gemini-3.6-flash: $7.50/M output tokens; claude-opus-5: $25.00/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

Which responds faster?

claude-opus-5: 1.4s first-token latency 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-3.6-flash accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on claude-opus-5 and 65,536 tokens on gemini-3.6-flash.

Which one generates tokens faster?

gemini-3.6-flash at 123.8 tokens/s and claude-opus-5 at 56.7 tokens/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from first-token latency.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

claude-opus-5 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, structured outputs, long context and web search; gemini-3.6-flash accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search and long context.

Can I call claude-opus-5 and gemini-3.6-flash 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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