Head to head
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 vs Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash
Live prices, context windows, capabilities, and measured quality — updated continuously.
Side by side
| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic | Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash Google Ai Studio |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/M tokens | $5.00 | $0.375 |
| Output $/M tokens | $25.00 | $1.88 |
| Context window | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Max output | 128K | 66K |
| WM Score | 83 | 82 |
| Benchmark quality | 81.4 | 81.7 |
| Hosts serving it | 5 | 2 |
| Throughput (tok/s) | 71 | 119 |
| Latency (ms) | 1077 | 2469 |
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Which should you pick?
Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash costs less per million input tokens — about 13.3× cheaper than Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.8. Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash scores higher on measured quality. Google: Gemini 3.8 Flash takes a larger context window, which matters for long documents or big codebases. Prices here are live list prices; the same model can cost less on a different host, so check the model page for the cheapest offering.