# Gemini 3.1 Pro vs Claude Opus 4.8

On provider list prices, Gemini 3.1 Pro costs $2 per million input tokens against $5 for Claude Opus 4.8: 2.5x apart. Output is $12 against $25 (2.1x). On Allocate both bill at list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## Specifications

| | Gemini 3.1 Pro | Claude Opus 4.8 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Google | Anthropic |
| Access | API only | API only |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 200K tokens |
| List price, input | $2 / M tokens | $5 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $12 / M tokens | $25 / M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a | n/a |
| License | Proprietary API | Proprietary API |
| Fine-tunable | No | No |

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-08. Billed price is list plus the 7% transaction fee.

## What the numbers say

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $6,600 a month on Gemini 3.1 Pro and $14,750 on Claude Opus 4.8 at list: a gap of $8,150, or 2.2x.

Gemini 3.1 Pro reads 1M tokens per request against 200K for Claude Opus 4.8, 5.0x the window. That decides which one can take whole documents without splitting them.

## Choose Gemini 3.1 Pro for

- Judgment-heavy workflows
- Long-context analysis
- Escalation tier above Flash

## Choose Claude Opus 4.8 for

- Hardest reasoning problems
- High-stakes analysis
- Escalation tier for agents

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.1 Pro or Claude Opus 4.8?

Gemini 3.1 Pro, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $2/$12 per million tokens in and out against $5/$25 for Claude Opus 4.8. Billed on Allocate: $2.14/$12.84 against $5.35/$26.75, list plus 7%.

### Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Pro: 1,000,000 tokens (1M) against 200,000 (200K) for Claude Opus 4.8.

### Can I fine-tune Gemini 3.1 Pro or Claude Opus 4.8?

No. Both are closed models served over API. If you want a model you can train and own, start from an open-weights base in the catalog.

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