Is Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Claude Opus 4.1 cheaper?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper on output tokens ($3.00 vs $75.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Claude Opus 4.1?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview has the larger context window (1M tokens).

Gemini 3 Flash Preview vs Claude Opus 4.1

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper on output tokens, while Gemini 3 Flash Preview offers a larger context window. Choose Gemini 3 Flash Preview or Claude Opus 4.1 based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Gemini 3 Flash Preview	Claude Opus 4.1
Provider	Vertex	Vertex
Input / 1M tokens	$0.50	$15.00
Output / 1M tokens	$3.00	$75.00
Context window	1M	200K
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	Dec 2025	Aug 2025

Gemini 3 Flash Preview details →Claude Opus 4.1 details →

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