Is Claude or Gemini cheaper?

Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $1.25/$10 per 1M tokens, making it cheaper than Claude Sonnet 4.6 ($3/$15). Claude Opus 4.7/4.8 ($5/$25) is more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Pro. For budget use cases, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite ($0.10/$0.40) is cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 ($1/$5). However, Claude generally excels at complex reasoning tasks.

Which has a larger context window, Claude or Gemini?

Gemini 2.5 Pro offers a 1M token context window, the largest available. Claude Opus 4.7/4.8 also offers 1M context. Claude Sonnet 4.6 has 1M context. For most use cases, 1M is sufficient, but Gemini and newer Claude models handle extremely long documents better.

Which is better for coding, Claude or Gemini?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 and Claude Code are widely regarded as the best coding assistants, with strong performance on complex refactoring and multi-file tasks. Gemini 2.5 Pro is competitive on coding benchmarks and offers a larger context window. For IDE-integrated coding, Claude Code is the preferred choice.

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