Claude 2 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison
Claude 2 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro compares provider, context window, token pricing, benchmark performance, and release timeline in one side-by-side view. Use this page to quickly identify which model is a better fit for your production constraints, quality targets, and estimated cost per request.
Verdict
Gemini 2.5 Pro has lower listed token pricing, while Claude 2 can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.
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Overview
Claude 2 was released 20 months before Gemini 2.5 Pro.
 Claude 2 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
Provider The entity that provides this model. | Anthropic | Google |
Input Context Window The number of tokens supported by the input context window. | 100K tokens | 2M tokens |
Maximum Output Tokens The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request. | Not specified. | 64K tokens |
Release Date When the model was first released. | Jul 11, 2023 over 1 yearago 2023-07-11 | Mar 25, 2025 over 1 year 2025-03-25 |
Leaderboard
| Claude 2 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
Rank | 22 | Unknown |
Arena Elo | 1132 | Not specified. |
95% CI | +4/-5 | Not specified. |
Votes | 13413 | Not specified. |
License | Proprietary | Not specified. |
Knowledge Cutoff | Unknown | Unknown |
Pricing
| Claude 2 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
Input Cost of input data provided to the model. | $8.00 per million tokens | $1.25 per million tokens |
Output Cost of output tokens generated by the model. | $24.00 per million tokens | $10.00 per million tokens |
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude 2 and Gemini 2.5 Pro Instruct.
| Claude 2 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | |
|---|---|---|
MMLU Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings. | 78.5 (5-shot) | Benchmark not available. |
MMMU A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark. | Benchmark not available. | 81.7 |
HellaSwag A challenging sentence completion benchmark. | Benchmark not available. | Benchmark not available. |