Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) is the better pick: it passed more tasks on the AIGROW small-business benchmark and has the lower list price. Claude Opus 5 passed 17 of 20 tasks and costs $5 in and $25 out per million tokens; Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) passed 19 and costs $2 in and $12 out.
AIGROW credit covers Claude Opus 5.5, Claude Fable 5.2, Claude Fable 5.1, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, GPT-6.1 Terra, Grok 4.7 and Gemini 4 Argon. Claude Opus 5.5 below list price
$25 a month brings $110 of API credit and cancels any time; $25 once buys $100. Gemini 3.1 Pro is still a preview, so its price and quality can change, and this verdict with them. US dollars, standard rate, shortest context band. Cost per pass from the AIGROW small-business benchmark. Newer comparison: Gemini 4 Argon vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Claude Opus 5
- $16.89
- Tasks passed
- 17 of 20
- Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- $29.67
- Tasks passed
- 19 of 20
AIGROW small-business benchmark, failed runs included.
A common premium choice for writing and analysis, where Gemini costs well under half. Claude Opus 5 costs $16.89 per 1,000 passing answers on the AIGROW small-business benchmark, Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) $29.67. 1,000 support replies cost $25.00 on Claude Opus 5 and $10.80 on Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview), so Claude Opus 5 costs 2.3 times as much.
What each one costs
The API price per million tokens and the cheapest app plan with each model, from the makers’ own pages. Each name opens that model’s full price page.
- Claude Opus 5
- On the Anthropic API, Claude Opus 5 costs $5 per million input tokens and $25 per million output tokens.
- Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- On the Google API, Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) costs $2 per million input tokens and $12 per million output tokens. In Gemini, the cheapest plan with it is Google AI Pro at $19.99/mo. Plan prices read 20 October 2026.
Side by side
Each maker’s published rate for its standard tier. Cached input is what a repeated prompt prefix costs once the provider has stored it.
| Fact | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | |
| Tier | Flagships | Flagships |
| Input, per M tokens | $5.00 | $2.00 |
| Output, per M tokens | $25.00 | $12.00 |
| Cached input | $0.50 | $0.20 |
| Context window | 1M | 1.05M |
| Released | 24 Jul 2026 | 19 Feb 2026 |
| Weights | Closed weights | Closed weights |
What a job costs on each
1,000 runs of each job at the two list prices. The gap moves from job to job because the models price input, output and cached context differently.
| Job | Claude Opus 5 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Support reply3,000 in, 400 out. | $25.00 | $10.80 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview), 57% less |
| Document summary25,000 in, 1,000 out. | $150 | $62.00 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview), 59% less |
| Agent task80,000 in (70,000 cached), 3,000 out. | $160 | $70.00 | Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview), 56% less |
The token counts are ours, chosen to look like real work; the prices are the makers’. A model with no published cache price bills the agent task’s repeated context at its full input rate.
The small print
What each base rate leaves out, from the makers’ own pages: surcharges, discounts, promotions and cache pricing.
- Claude Opus 5
- Legacy model, still available; Anthropic now points most work to Claude Opus 5.5 and lists no retirement before 24 July 2027. Cache write $6.25 (5 min) or $10 (1 h). Fast mode $10 / $50. Batch API 50% off. US-only inference bills 1.1x. Full context window billed at standard rates. Anthropic’s pricing page
- Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- Preview model, but Google has no GA 3.x Pro and it is widely used. Prompts above 200K tokens: $4 / $18, cached $0.40. Cache storage $4.50 per MTok per hour. Batch 50% off. Max output 65,536. Google’s pricing page
Other comparisons
Every head to head on the list that involves Claude Opus 5 or Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview).
- Gemini 4 Argon vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Opus 5
- Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- GPT-6.1 Sol vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- GPT-6 Astra vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- Claude Fable 5.1 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview)
- Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Opus 5
- Claude Opus 5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol
Compare Claude Opus 5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro (preview) with 52 other models
The price list sets every model’s input and output price side by side, with what a support reply, a document summary and an agent task cost on each.
Prices checked 12 November 2026