Models

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.

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Gemini 3.7 Flash
Google · text, image, audio, video → text

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.

Input$0.75 /M
Output$3.75 /M
Anthropic logo
Claude Opus 4.1
Anthropic · text, image → text

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%.

Input$16.50 /M
Output$82.50 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Gemini 3.7 Flash
Claude Opus 4.1
Input /M
$0.75
$16.50
Output /M
$3.75
$82.50
Cache read /M
$0.08
$16.50
Context length
1,048,576
200,000
Max output
65,536
32,000
Time to First Token
4.3 s
1.7 s
Throughput
84.2 tok/s
40.6 tok/s
Modalities
textimageaudiovideo
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputsweblong context
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · gemini_api · claude_api
Released
August 13, 2026
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

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

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

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

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
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1400146015201580
Overall
14471490
Coding
15051522
Math
14341524
Hard prompts
14771507
Instruction following
14551486
Multi-turn
14691500
Creative writing
14421493
Longer query
14721499
Chinese
14651556
English
14581489
WebDev Arena
gemini-3.7-flashclaude-opus-4-1
1360144015201600
Overall
13861588
React
15821582
HTML
13931622
Gaming
16361636
Simulations
16371637
Data analytics
15631563

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

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

Gemini 3.7 Flash
$101 /mo
Claude Opus 4.1
$2,228 /mo

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

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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