Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 1.5 Pro
Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 1.5 Pro: Gemini 1.5 Pro is cheaper by 80% on average. Claude Opus 4.7 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. Gemini 1.5 Pro 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.
3,000
02,000,000
400
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5,000
01,000,000
At this workload, Gemini 1.5 Pro is 77% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7 — a savings of $2,930/month ($35,155/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
model: gemini-1-5-pro
provider: vertex-ai
fallback:
model: claude-opus-4-7
provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 } # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live| Claude Opus 4.7 | Gemini 1.5 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $5.00/M | $1.25/M |
| Output price | $25.00/M | $5.00/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 |
Benchmark comparison
Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.
MMMUmultimodal
Claude Opus 4.7
91.5%
Gemini 1.5 Pro
62.2%