Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: API price and specs

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is 97% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on input price.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is 98% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on output price.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is 97% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite has a 90.7% larger context than Claude Opus 4.8.

Field	Claude Opus 4.8	Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Lowest input, per 1M	$1.50 +2784.6%	$0.052
Median input, per 1M	$5.00 +6566.7%	$0.075
Lowest output, per 1M	$9.25 +4304.8%	$0.21
Median output, per 1M	$25.00 +8233.3%	$0.30
Lowest unit price	$0.001 / request	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$3.35 +3463.8%	$0.094
Context	1M +47.6%	2M
Max output	128K	8K +93.6%
Providers	34	3 +91.2%
Regions	APAC, AU, EU, GLOBAL, JP, US	—
Accepts	application/pdf, file, image, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, pdf, text	audio, image, text, video
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	xpersona	poe

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

302ai, google-vertex, poe

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is 97% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on input price. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is 98% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on output price. Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is 97% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Claude Opus 4.8 or Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite?

Claude Opus 4.8: 1M tokens; Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: 2M tokens.

Where can I use both Claude Opus 4.8 and Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite?

302ai, google-vertex, poe