Claude Opus 4.8 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

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	Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic's Opus-tier model (May 2026) with improved coding, agentic, and honesty behavior over Opus 4.7.	Gemini 2.5 Pro Google's frontier multimodal model with very long context.
Category	model	model
Vendor type	commercial	commercial
Pricing	usage	usage
Strengths	+ Vendor-reported gains on coding and agentic benchmarks (Terminal-Bench 2.1, 84% on Online-Mind2Web) + Improved honesty; more likely to acknowledge missing information and flag flaws in its own code + Standard pricing unchanged from Opus 4.7 ($5 input / $25 output per million tokens), with a cheaper fast mode than before	+ Very long context + Native multimodal (image/video/audio) + Competitive pricing per token
Tradeoffs	− Superseded as Anthropic's top model by Claude Fable 5 (June 2026) for the most demanding long-horizon work − API-only commercial model; no open weights	− Tool-use ergonomics differ from OpenAI/Anthropic − Smaller agent-framework ecosystem
Used in stacks	0	6