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Claude Opus 5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Claude Opus 5 costs 2.3× as much as Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview: $20.00 against $8.80 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Claude Opus 5Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
Input, per 1M tokens$5.00$2.00
Output, per 1M tokens$25.00$12.00
Context window1M1.05M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$3.25$1.32
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$20.00$8.80
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$52.50$22.00
Confidence signalnono
Tool callingyesyes

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview answers your requests as well as Claude Opus 5, moving that traffic saves 56% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview does not expose a confidence signal through OpenRouter, so Gimbix would test it as a full replacement rather than a first answer.

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