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Google Gemini API vs Anthropic API

Gemini 2.5 Pro, Flash, Flash-Lite — multimodal + 2M context
vs. API for Claude — frontier models for chat, tool use, agents, and long-context reasoning

Google AI Studio ↗Anthropic website ↗

Pricing tiers

Google Gemini API

Free Tier (AI Studio)
Generous free tier with rate limits. Good for dev + prototyping. Data may be used to improve Google products.
Free
Paid API (Gemini API)
Pay-as-you-go per-token. Data NOT used for training.
$0 base (usage-based)
Vertex AI (GCP)
Enterprise deployment via Google Cloud. Same pricing structure + GCP features (IAM, VPC-SC, CMEK).
$0 base (usage-based)
Gemini Enterprise
Custom. Gemini 2.5 Deep Think model access + Google Workspace + Agentspace.
Custom
Google AI Studio ↗

Anthropic API

Opus 4.7 — usage
Input $5 / output $25 / cache-write $6.25 / cache-read $0.50 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Sonnet 4.6 — usage
Input $3 / output $15 / cache-write $3.75 / cache-read $0.30 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Haiku 4.5 — usage
Input $1 / output $5 / cache-write $1.25 / cache-read $0.10 per 1M tokens. Batch = 50% off.
Custom
Anthropic website ↗

Free-tier quotas head-to-head

Comparing free-tier on Google Gemini API vs opus-4-7 on Anthropic API.

MetricGoogle Gemini APIAnthropic API
discount batch—50 % off

Features

Google Gemini API · 11 features

  • Batch API — 50% discount for async processing.
  • Code Execution — Python code interpreter tool (sandboxed).
  • Context Caching — Cache system instructions + tools for up to 90% savings.
  • File API — Upload large files (up to 2 GB) for multimodal prompts.
  • Function Calling — JSON schema-based tool calling. Parallel supported.
  • generateContent API — Core generation endpoint.
  • Grounding with Search — Augment answers with Google Search results. Fact-checked citations returned.
  • Model Tuning — Supervised fine-tuning via AI Studio.
  • Multimodal Live API — Bidirectional streaming voice + video (WebSocket).
  • Safety Settings — Configurable thresholds for harm categories.
  • streamGenerateContent — Streaming variant with SSE.

Anthropic API · 0 features

    Developer interfaces

    KindGoogle Gemini APIAnthropic API
    CLI—Claude Code CLI
    SDK@google/genai, google-genai-go, google-genai (Python)Go SDK, Java SDK, Python SDK, Ruby SDK, TypeScript SDK (@anthropic-ai/sdk)
    RESTGemini REST API, Vertex AI EndpointAWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, Microsoft Azure AI, REST API (Messages + Agents)
    MCPGemini MCP—
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