Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro: Detailed Comparison

Choosing between Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) and Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google) comes down to three things: per-token pricing, context window, and which capability matters most for your workload. Claude Opus 4.7 costs $15.00/M input vs $1.25/M for Gemini 2.5 Pro; context windows are 200K vs 2.0M tokens. Detailed breakdown below.

Side-by-side specs

SpecClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 2.5 Pro
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Released2026-04-222025-03-25
Input price $15.00/M $1.25/M
Output price $75.00/M $10.00/M
Cached input $1.5000/M $0.3100/M
Context window 200K 2.0M
Max output 64K 66K
Modalities text image text image audio video
Tokenizer claude-3 gemini

Capability matrix

CapabilityClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 2.5 Pro
function calling Yes Yes
json mode Yes Yes
vision Yes Yes
streaming Yes Yes
tool use Yes No
audio No Yes
video No Yes
thinking No Yes

Benchmark comparison

Higher is better for all benchmarks shown.

BenchmarkCategoryClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 2.5 ProΔ
GPQA Diamond reasoning 83.1 84.0 -0.9
SWE-bench Verified coding 77.2 63.8 +13.4
Aider Polyglot coding 81.5
MMLU-Pro general 86.4
AIME 2025 math 86.7

Per-call cost on typical workloads

Workload (in/out tokens)Claude Opus 4.7Gemini 2.5 ProCheaper by
Standard chat (1K / 500) $0.052500 $0.006250 Gemini 2.5 Pro by $0.046250
RAG (4K / 500) $0.097500 $0.010000 Gemini 2.5 Pro by $0.087500
Long doc (20K / 1K) $0.375000 $0.035000 Gemini 2.5 Pro by $0.340000
Very long context (100K / 2K) $1.612500 $0.140000 Gemini 2.5 Pro by $1.472500

When to choose Claude Opus 4.7 over Gemini 2.5 Pro

  • Supports tool use — Gemini 2.5 Pro does not.

When to choose Gemini 2.5 Pro over Claude Opus 4.7

  • Per-token input cost is 92% lower than Claude Opus 4.7.
  • Larger context window (2.0M vs 200K).
  • Supports audio — Claude Opus 4.7 does not.
  • Supports video — Claude Opus 4.7 does not.
  • Supports thinking — Claude Opus 4.7 does not.

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