Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 2.0 Pro exp 02.05

Name: Gemini 2.0 Pro exp 02.05
Brand: Google Vertex AI
Price: 1.250000 USD

Claude Opus 4.6 vs Gemini 2.0 Pro exp 02.05: Gemini 2.0 Pro exp 02.05 is cheaper by 75% on average. Claude Opus 4.6 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. Gemini 2.0 Pro exp 02.05 from Google Vertex AI (2,097,152-token context, tool calls). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.

Side-by-side cost

Live workload comparison

Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.

Input tokens / request3,000

02,000,000

Output tokens / request400

0128,000

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

Claude Opus 4.6

Azure AI Foundry

$3,805/mo

Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M

Gemini 2.0 Pro exp 02.05Cheaper

Google Vertex AI

$1,179/mo

Input $1.25/M · Output $10.00/M

At this workload, Gemini 2.0 Pro exp 02.05 is 69% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6 — a savings of $2,625/month ($31,503/year).

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gemini-2-0-pro-exp-02-05
  provider: vertex-ai
fallback:
  model: claude-opus-4-6
  provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	Claude Opus 4.6 Azure AI Foundry	Gemini 2.0 Pro exp 02.05 Google Vertex AI
Input price	$5.00/M	$1.25/M
Output price	$25.00/M	$10.00/M
Context window	200,000	2,097,152
Max output	128,000	8,192
Function calling	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio input	—	✓
Reasoning	✓	—
Prompt caching	✓	✓
Structured output	✓	✓
Pricing verified	May 12, 2026	May 7, 2026