Gemini vs Claude pricing
Both Gemini and Claude have three tiers — frontier, balanced, and fast. Gemini is typically cheaper across the board; Claude leads on coding quality. Here's the per-token breakdown.
| Google Gemini | Anthropic Claude | |
|---|---|---|
| Frontier (input / output per 1M) | Gemini 2.5 Pro — $1.25 / $10.00 | Claude Opus 4.7 — $15.00 / $75.00 |
| Balanced | Gemini 2.5 Flash — $0.30 / $2.50 | Claude Sonnet 4.6 — $3.00 / $15.00 |
| Fast | Gemini 2.0 Flash — $0.10 / $0.40 | Claude Haiku 4.5 — $0.80 / $4.00 |
| Context window | Up to 2M tokens | 200K tokens |
| Best at | Long documents, multimodal, cost | Coding, long-form writing, instruction following |
The verdict
For raw cost-per-token, Gemini wins every tier. For coding and writing quality, Claude wins. LemonSugar Ai routes prompts to whichever is cheapest for the task at hand — you don't have to pick.
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