Claude Sonnet 5 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro — Side-by-side pricing
Side-by-side API pricing and tokenizer details for Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic) and Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google).
Side-by-side pricing
| Feature | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Input (per 1M tokens) | $2.00 | $1.25 |
| Output (per 1M tokens) | $10.00 | $10.00 |
| Long-context pricing | Flat rate at any prompt size | Over 200K tokens: $2.50 in / $15.00 out |
| Context caching | Yes — 90% off cached tokens | No |
| Batch API discount | 50% off | Not available |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens |
| Tokenizer | Anthropic tokenizer (Opus 4.7+) | Gemini tokenizer |
ⓘ Claude Sonnet 5: Introductory pricing through Aug 31, 2026. Standard price: $3.00 / $15.00 per MTok after that date.
Real-world cost example
1,000 API requests per month, each with 500 input tokens and 200 output tokens (500K input + 200K output total).
Claude Sonnet 5
$3.0000
Input: $1.0000 +Output: $2.0000
Gemini 2.5 Pro
$2.6250
Input: $0.6250 +Output: $2.0000
Gemini 2.5 Pro is 13% cheaper for this workload — saving $0.3750 per month at this volume.
Frequently asked questions
No, Gemini 2.5 Pro is cheaper for the typical workload above. At $1.25/1M input and $10.00/1M output tokens, it costs $2.6250 versus $3.0000 for Claude Sonnet 5 — a 13% difference. Note that Gemini 2.5 Pro switches to long-context pricing above 200K prompt tokens, so for very long prompts this gap does not scale linearly.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports a 1M token context window. Gemini 2.5 Pro supports a 1M token context window. A larger context window lets you include more text — documents, conversation history, or code — in a single API call.
Claude Sonnet 5 supports context caching (90% off repeated tokens). It offers a 50% Batch API discount. Gemini 2.5 Pro does not support context caching. It does not offer a batch API discount.
No, they use different tokenizers. Claude Sonnet 5 uses the Anthropic tokenizer (Opus 4.7+), while Gemini 2.5 Pro uses Gemini tokenizer. Different tokenizers split text differently, so the same prompt will produce different token counts on each model — the effective cost difference may be larger or smaller than the per-token price difference alone suggests.
Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic): $2 input / $10 output per 1M tokens. Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google): $1.25 input / $10 output per 1M tokens. Rates shown before caching or batch discounts.
For an 80% output / 20% input workload — typical for code generation or long-form writing — Claude Sonnet 5 costs $8.4000 per 1M total tokens and Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $8.2500. Gemini 2.5 Pro is 2% cheaper for this pattern. For your exact ratio, paste a real prompt into the calculator above.
Claude Sonnet 5 has a 1M-token context window — approximately 750K words or ~3K pages of standard text. Gemini 2.5 Pro has a 1M-token context window — approximately 750K words or ~3K pages. (Estimates assume ~0.75 words per token.)
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