Claude Opus 4.1 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Compare Claude Opus 4.1 by Anthropic against Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 by Google AI, in 25 community votes, claude opus 4.1 and gemini 2.5 pro preview 06-05 are closely matched, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 44 shared challenges.
Image Generation: Claude Opus 4.1 and Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 are tied
Web Design: Claude Opus 4.1 wins 80% of votes
Analysis: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 wins 100% of votes
Our Verdict
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Too close to call. Pick based on your use case.
Pick Claude Opus 4.1 for Web Design. Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 for Analysis. Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 is 7.5x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Opus 4.1
Input
$15.00
Output
$75.00
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Input
$1.25
12× cheaper
Output
$10.00
7.5× cheaper
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 is cheaper on both — 12× input, 7.5× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
42%
Claude Opus 4.1 uses 38.4x more emoji
Claude Opus 4.1
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
61%Vocabulary51%
87wSentence Length15w
0.54Hedging0.31
5.1Bold4.8
6.7Lists4.1
0.38Emoji0.00
1.68Headings0.98
0.13Transitions0.05
Based on 17 + 20 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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