Anthropic Claude
Claude Opus 5.5
$8.00 / 1M tokens
cheapest at Anthropic · $4.00 in · $20.00 out
Wins 1 of 4
Head to head · prices updated Oct 31, 2026
Claude Opus 5.5 costs 2.0× as much as Gemini 4 Argon at their cheapest providers (blended 3 input : 1 output tokens).
Anthropic Claude
$8.00 / 1M tokens
cheapest at Anthropic · $4.00 in · $20.00 out
Wins 1 of 4
Google Gemini and Gemma
$4.00 / 1M tokens
cheapest at Google Gemini API · $2.00 in · $10.00 out
Wins 3 of 4
Verdict
Claude Opus 5.5 costs 2.0× as much as Gemini 4 Argon at their cheapest providers (blended 3 input : 1 output tokens).
Gemini 4 Argon scores higher on GPQA Diamond: 96.4% (high reasoning) vs 90.6% (max reasoning).
Gemini 4 Argon wins on both price and accuracy here.
Gemini 4 Argon accepts longer prompts (1049K vs 1000K tokens).
Your monthly bill
Gemini 4 Argon saves you $40.00 a month ($480.00 a year) for this workload.
| Claude Opus 5.5 | Gemini 4 Argon | |
|---|---|---|
| Cheapest blended price / 1M | $8.00 | $4.00 |
| Input / output per 1M | $4.00 / $20.00 | $2.00 / $10.00 |
| Accuracy (GPQA Diamond) | 90.6% (max reasoning) | 96.4% (high reasoning) |
| Max context | 1M | 1M |
| Providers we track | 4 | 2 |
Standard list prices at each model's cheapest provider we track; blended = 3 input : 1 output tokens. GPQA Diamond from Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0), best measured reasoning setting, named next to each score. Methodology.
Claude Opus 5.5 costs 2.0× as much as Gemini 4 Argon at their cheapest providers (blended 3 input : 1 output tokens).
On GPQA Diamond (graduate-level science questions, measured by Epoch AI) Claude Opus 5.5 scores 90.6% (max reasoning) and Gemini 4 Argon 96.4% (high reasoning). One benchmark is not the whole picture; test both on your own prompts.
From $4.00 input and $20.00 output per 1M tokens at Anthropic, the cheapest of 4 providers we track.
From $2.00 input and $10.00 output per 1M tokens at Google Gemini API, the cheapest of 2 providers we track.
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