Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro: Gemini 2.5 Pro is cheaper by 75% on average. Claude Opus 4.7 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro from Google Vertex AI (1,048,576-token context, reasoning, 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
01,048,576
400
0128,000
5,000
01,000,000
Azure AI Foundry
$3,805/mo
Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M
Google Vertex AI
$1,179/mo
Input $1.25/M · Output $10.00/M
At this workload, Gemini 2.5 Pro is 69% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7 — a savings of $2,625/month ($31,503/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: gemini-2-5-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 2.5 Pro
Input price $5.00/M $1.25/M
Output price $25.00/M $10.00/M
Context window 200,000 1,048,576
Max output 128,000 65,535
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 12, 2026 May 12, 2026
Cheaper option
~75% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.7
Larger context
1,048,576 tokens
More capabilities
6 of 6 capability flags advertised

Benchmark comparison

Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.

Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude Opus 4.7
1,491
Gemini 2.5 Pro
1,448
GPQA Diamondreasoning
Claude Opus 4.7
94.2%
Gemini 2.5 Pro
84.0%
MATH-500math
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
93.7%
HumanEvalcode
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
93.6%
MMMUmultimodal
Claude Opus 4.7
91.5%
Gemini 2.5 Pro
79.6%
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
Claude Opus 4.7
87.6%
Gemini 2.5 Pro
63.8%
AIME 2025math
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
86.7%
MMLU-Proreasoning
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
86.7%
BFCL v3agent
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
76.0%
Aider Polyglotcode
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
73.3%
LiveCodeBenchcode
Claude Opus 4.7
Gemini 2.5 Pro
69.0%
SWE-benchagent
Claude Opus 4.7
64.3%
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Humanity's Last Examreasoning⚠ different settings
Claude Opus 4.7
46.9%
Gemini 2.5 Pro
18.8%