Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Anthropic · May 2026
Anthropic's flagship Opus with adaptive thinking, effort controls and a 1M context — 88.6% on SWE-bench Verified at $5/$25.
Google · Jul 2025
Ten cents per million input tokens with multimodal support — the price floor of the 2025 Gemini lineup.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite works out roughly 57x cheaper per blended million tokens. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite also takes 1.0M of context versus 1M for Claude Opus 4.8.
Specs & pricing
| Claude Opus 4.8 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $5 | $0.1 |
| Output price / 1M | $25 | $0.4 |
| Context window | 1M | 1.0M |
| Max output | 64K | 66K |
| Open weights | no | no |
| Reasoning model | yes | no |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image, audio, video |
| Knowledge cutoff | Mar 2026 | Jan 2025 |
| Released | May 2026 | Jul 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $87.50 | $1.60 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite works out roughly 57x cheaper per blended million tokens. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite also takes 1.0M of context versus 1M for Claude Opus 4.8.
- Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
- Claude Opus 4.8 costs $5/$25 per million input/output tokens, while Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite costs $0.1/$0.4. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $87.50 versus $1.60.
- Which model is better for coding, Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.