Gemini 3.7 Flash is Google’s natively multimodal reasoning model for coding, agents, web development, and knowledge work. It supports a 1M-token context window and adjustable thinking levels. Compared with Gemini 3.6 Flash, it improves coding, tool use, multi-step planning, and instruction following.
Gemini 3.7 Flash vs Claude Opus 4.1
Output tokens cost $3.75 per million on Gemini 3.7 Flash and $82.50 per million on Claude Opus 4.1. Input tokens cost $0.75 per million on Gemini 3.7 Flash and $16.50 per million on Claude Opus 4.1. Cached input tokens are billed at $0.08 per million on Gemini 3.7 Flash and $16.50 per million on Claude Opus 4.1. Context lengths are 1,048,576 tokens on Gemini 3.7 Flash and 200,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.1. Time to first token (TTFT) measured on AIHubMix is 4.3s on Gemini 3.7 Flash and 1.7s on Claude Opus 4.1. Measured output throughput is 84.2 tok/s on Gemini 3.7 Flash and 40.6 tok/s on Claude Opus 4.1. On the LMArena coding leaderboard Gemini 3.7 Flash scores 1522 and Claude Opus 4.1 scores 1505.
Opus 4.1 is an upgraded version of Claude Opus 4, with improvements mainly in agent tasks, practical coding, and reasoning. Compared to Opus 4, there is a slight improvement in software engineering accuracy; Opus 4.1 has higher accuracy at 74.5%.
Pricing & Specifications
Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.
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Performance Past 3 Days
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LMArena Benchmarks
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Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.
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FAQ
Which is cheaper: Gemini 3.7 Flash, Claude Opus 4.1?
Gemini 3.7 Flash: $3.75/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.1: $82.50/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
How do their coding arena scores compare?
Gemini 3.7 Flash: 1522; Claude Opus 4.1: 1505 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Which responds faster?
Claude Opus 4.1: 1.7s 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?
Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts 1,048,576 and Claude Opus 4.1 accepts 200,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 65,536 tokens on Gemini 3.7 Flash and 32,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.1.
Which one generates tokens faster?
Gemini 3.7 Flash at 84.2 tok/s and Claude Opus 4.1 at 40.6 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
What inputs and capabilities does each model support?
Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts text, image, audio and video input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search and long context; Claude Opus 4.1 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.
Can I call Gemini 3.7 Flash and Claude Opus 4.1 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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