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Claude Sonnet vs Gemini 1.5 Pro Pricing

Long-context products often shortlist Claude Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Pro. Compare token economics before you commit to a context-window strategy.

  • Large contexts inflate input tokens faster than teams expect.
  • Gemini and Claude price curves differ — do not assume parity from marketing tiers.
  • Chunk retrieval can beat stuffing full corpora into every request.
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How do I price long-context RAG?

Measure average retrieved tokens per query, not maximum context size.

Should I include embedding costs?

Yes for total ownership, but this page isolates chat/completion token pricing only.

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