Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview

Compare Claude Opus 4.7 and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview on the metrics that decide an agent workload.

MetricClaude Opus 4.7Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview
ProviderAnthropicGoogle Gemini
Input / 1M$5.00$2.00
Output / 1M$25.00$12.00
Cache read / 1M$0.50 (−90%)$0.20 (−90%)
Reuse-adj @55%$8.14$3.76
Context1M1M
Cache capture92%82%
Warm TTFT320ms (−64%)360ms (−56%)
Quality index9594

Teal marks the better value in each row. Reuse-adjusted assumes 55% prefix reuse and a 25% output share.

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 when

Pick Claude Opus 4.7 when it scores higher on the composite quality index, it answers faster on warm cache hits, it captures more of the available reuse.

Pick Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview when

Pick Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview when it is cheaper once prefix reuse is priced in, it carries the larger 1M context window.

Verdict

Claude Opus 4.7 leads on quality while Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview leads on reuse-adjusted cost. Send latency- and budget-sensitive volume to Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview and reserve Claude Opus 4.7 for the hard requests. Zumik's aliases route between them automatically under policy.

Claude Opus 4.7 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview, answered.

Is Claude Opus 4.7 or Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview cheaper?

At 55% prefix reuse, Claude Opus 4.7 blends to about $8.14 per 1M tokens and Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview to about $3.76. Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview is cheaper on that basis.

Which has the larger context window?

Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview has the larger window: 1M vs 1M tokens.

Which captures more reuse?

Claude Opus 4.7 shows higher measured cache capture (92% vs 82%) in the Zumik corpus.

Let an alias pick for you.

Route to whichever model wins under current policy automatically. Zumik resolves the alias to the best fit per request, so you never hard-code a loser.