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Claude Opus 5.5 vs Gemini 4 Carbon API pricing

For a chat message (1K input, 500 output), Gemini 4 Carbon costs $0.007 per request and Claude Opus 5.5 costs $0.014, so Gemini 4 Carbon is about 2× cheaper.

On the overall leaderboard Claude Opus 5.5 ranks #3 and Gemini 4 Carbon ranks #2.

Prices are the standard pay-as-you-go prices in OpenRouter's public model list, with input at the cache-miss price. Models OpenRouter does not list use the vendor's official price; those listed in CNY are converted to USD at this round's exchange rate.

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Prices and rankings

USD per million tokensClaude Opus 5.5Gemini 4 Carbon
Input$4$2
Output$20$10
Cached input$0.2$0.1
ProviderAnthropicgoogle
Release date2026-09-17—
Overall rank#3#2
Coding rank#1—
Reasoning rank#3—
Knowledge rank#7#2
Professional work rank#3—
Verified2026-11-132026-11-13
Price sourcePrice sourcePrice source

Cost per request by usage

Without cache discounts or batch pricing.

UsageClaude Opus 5.5Gemini 4 CarbonDifference
Chat message1K in / 500 out$0.014$14 per 1,000$0.007$7 per 1,000Gemini 4 Carbon is 2× cheaper
Long document100K in / 2K out$0.44$440 per 1,000$0.22$220 per 1,000Gemini 4 Carbon is 2× cheaper
Agent session500K in / 50K out$3$3,000 per 1,000$1.5$1,500 per 1,000Gemini 4 Carbon is 2× cheaper

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