Google: Models Intelligence, Performance & Price
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best model provided by Google for your use-case.
Most Intelligent
Gemini 4 Carbon (high)
Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback)Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback)Gemini 4 Argon (high) AI StudioGemini 4 Argon (high) (Vertex)Intelligence Index
Total 47 models
Fastest
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite AI StudioGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (AI Studio)Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (AI Studio)Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (non-reasoning) (AI Studio)Gemini 2.5 Flash (AI Studio)Output speed
Total 47 models
Lowest Price
Gemma 4 26B A4B AI StudioGemma 4 31B (AI Studio)Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (non-reasoning) (AI Studio)Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (AI Studio)
gpt-oss-120b (low) VertexBlended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 47 models
Google offers 47 models, each with different intelligence, performance, and pricing characteristics. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across models.
- For intelligence, the top models on Google are Gemini 4 Carbon (high) (59), Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback) (58), and Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback) (54).
- For output speed, the fastest models are Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite AI Studio (456 t/s), Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (AI Studio) (389 t/s), and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (AI Studio) (388 t/s). Speed varies significantly across models, with a 97% difference between the fastest and slowest.
- For latency, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (non-reasoning) (AI Studio) (0.30s), Gemini 2.5 Flash (non-reasoning) (AI Studio) (0.36s), and Claude 4.5 Haiku (non-reasoning) Vertex (0.55s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, Gemma 4 26B A4B AI Studio ($0.00), Gemma 4 31B (AI Studio) ($0.00), and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (non-reasoning) (AI Studio) ($0.07) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens.
- For context window size, Llama 4 Scout Vertex (1M), Gemini 4 Carbon (high) (1M), and Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback) (1M) support the largest context windows on Google.
Intelligence Evaluations
Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Evaluations
Agentic knowledge work, Elo
Knowledge
1 - hallucination rate
Agentic SaaS workflows
Agentic scientific research workflows in a terminal
Agentic software engineering in open-source repositories
Reasoning & knowledge
Professional document reasoning, All-pass
Agentic coding & terminal use
Physics reasoning
Quantitative analysis on spreadsheets & documents
Legal agentic work, Hallucination-Gated All-Pass Rate
Agentic business operations
Agentic real-world work tasks, Elo
Agentic interactive 3D experiences, Elo
Product and brand videos designed in code, Elo
Kubernetes incident root-cause analysis
Medical long context reasoning
Visual reasoning
Rich, varied, well-crafted language
Well-structured, scannable, answer-first
Truthful, acknowledges uncertainty, non-sycophantic
Use of filler and generic language
Intelligence Index vs. Price
Context Window
Context Window
Pricing
Intelligence Index vs. Price
Performance Summary
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Latency: Time To First Answer Token
Cache Behaviour
Cache Hit Rate
Cost per Task vs. Cache Hit Rate
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time vs. Price
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Gemini 4 Carbon (high) | 1M | Proprietary | 59 | $7.76 | 102 | 100.31 | 105.19 | -- | |||
Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback) | 1M | Proprietary | 58 | $21.07 | 97 | 685.14 | 690.30 | -- | |||
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback) | 1M | Proprietary | 54 | $14.47 | 137 | 448.71 | 452.35 | -- | |||
Gemini 4 Argon (high) AI Studio (1M output) | 1M | Proprietary | 50 | $7.13 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Gemini 4 Argon (high) AI Studio | 1M | Proprietary | 50 | $9.95 | 101 | 42.17 | 47.10 | -- | |||
Gemini 4 Argon (high) (Vertex) | 1M | Proprietary | 50 | $7.68 | 82 | 46.64 | 52.71 | -- | |||
Claude Opus 5.5 (low with fallback) | 1M | Proprietary | 35 | $2.64 | 82 | 3.96 | 10.04 | -- | |||
Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) AI Studio | 1M | Proprietary | 31 | $7.77 | 143 | 26.72 | 30.21 | -- | |||
Gemini 3.8 Flash (medium) AI Studio | 1M | Proprietary | 30 | $6.26 | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low with fallback) | 1M | Proprietary | 25 | $1.03 | 111 | 1.28 | 5.79 | -- | |||
Gemini 3.8 Flash (low) AI Studio | 1M | Proprietary | 22 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite AI Studio | 1M | Proprietary | 12 | $0.69 | 456 | 6.54 | 7.64 | -- | |||
Gemini 3.5 Flash (high) AI Studio | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 215 | 14.58 | 16.90 | -- | |||
Gemini 3.5 Flash (minimal) AI Studio | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 198 | 0.84 | 3.36 | -- | |||
Gemini 2.5 Pro (May) (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Claude Opus 5 (xhigh) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (non-reasoning) (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 326 | 0.30 | 1.84 | -- | |||
Claude Opus 5 (low) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 58 | 2.32 | 10.94 | -- | |||
Gemini 2.5 Flash (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 232 | 14.22 | 16.38 | -- | |||
Gemini 2.5 Flash (Vertex) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 207 | 14.97 | 17.39 | -- | |||
Gemma 3 4B (AI Studio) | 128k | Open | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Claude Sonnet 5 (max) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 78 | 99.55 | 105.97 | -- | |||
Claude Opus 4.5 Vertex | 200k | Proprietary | -- | -- | 65 | 18.40 | 26.15 | -- | |||
Gemini 2.5 Pro (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 118 | 24.67 | 28.91 | -- | |||
Gemini 2.5 Pro Vertex | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 118 | 23.72 | 27.97 | -- | |||
Gemma 3 27B (AI Studio) | 128k | Open | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Claude Sonnet 4.6 (non-reasoning, high) | 200k | Proprietary | -- | -- | 54 | 0.92 | 10.21 | -- | |||
Gemma 3 12B (AI Studio) | 128k | Open | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Claude Opus 4.5 (non-reasoning) Vertex | 200k | Proprietary | -- | -- | 53 | 0.83 | 10.22 | -- | |||
Claude Opus 4.6 (non-reasoning, high) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 47 | 1.67 | 12.26 | -- | |||
Gemini 3.5 Flash (medium) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 217 | 12.02 | 14.33 | -- | |||
Claude 4 Opus (non-reasoning) Vertex | 200k | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Claude Opus 4.6 (max) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 54 | 17.57 | 26.80 | -- | |||
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 389 | 4.71 | 6.00 | -- | |||
Gemini 2.5 Flash (non-reasoning) (Vertex) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 187 | 0.63 | 3.31 | -- | |||
Gemini 2.5 Flash (non-reasoning) (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 210 | 0.36 | 2.74 | -- | |||
Gemma 4 26B A4B AI Studio | 262k | Open | -- | -- | 47 | 1.00 | 54.68 | 42.95 | |||
Claude Opus 5 (high) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Sep) (non-reasoning) (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Gemini 3.6 Flash (high) AI Studio | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 215 | 13.93 | 16.26 | -- | |||
Gemini 3 Flash (non-reasoning) (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 208 | 0.95 | 3.35 | -- | |||
Gemini 3 Flash (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 215 | 5.88 | 8.21 | -- | |||
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (Sep) (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Claude 4 Opus Vertex | 200k | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Claude 4.5 Sonnet Vertex | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 54 | 11.28 | 20.59 | -- | |||
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (non-reasoning) Vertex | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 45 | 0.93 | 12.04 | -- | |||
Claude Opus 4.8 (max) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 74 | 37.92 | 44.65 | -- | |||
Claude 4.5 Haiku Vertex | 200k | Proprietary | -- | -- | 119 | 15.99 | 20.19 | -- | |||
Gemma 3n E2B (AI Studio) | 32k | Open | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
 Llama 4 Scout Vertex | 1.31M | Open | -- | -- | 150 | 0.70 | 4.04 | -- | |||
Gemini 3 Pro Preview (low) (Vertex) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Claude Opus 5 (max) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 60 | 44.40 | 52.79 | -- | |||
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Vertex) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 99 | 26.86 | 31.93 | -- | |||
Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 151 | 19.95 | 23.26 | -- | |||
Claude 4.5 Haiku (non-reasoning) Vertex | 200k | Proprietary | -- | -- | 95 | 0.55 | 5.81 | -- | |||
gpt-oss-120b (low) Vertex | 131k | Open | -- | -- | 76 | 0.58 | 33.65 | 26.45 | |||
Claude 4.1 Opus Vertex | 200k | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Gemma 4 31B (AI Studio) | 262k | Open | -- | -- | 35 | 1.10 | 64.24 | 49.02 | |||
Claude Fable 5 (with fallback) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 71 | 82.40 | 89.49 | -- | |||
Gemini 3 Pro Preview (high) (Vertex) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Gemma 3 1B (AI Studio) | 32k | Open | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Claude 3.7 Sonnet (non-reasoning) Vertex | 200k | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max) | 200k | Proprietary | -- | -- | 62 | 67.19 | 75.19 | -- | |||
Claude Opus 4.7 (max) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 73 | 17.38 | 24.23 | -- | |||
gpt-oss-120b (high) Vertex | 131k | Open | -- | -- | 160 | 2.63 | 18.24 | 12.49 | |||
Claude 4.1 Opus (non-reasoning) Vertex | 200k | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | 388 | 11.13 | 12.42 | -- | |||
Gemini 2.0 Flash (exp) (AI Studio) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Claude Opus 5 (medium) | 1M | Proprietary | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | |||
Key definitions
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Google
Google offers 47 models that we track: Gemini 4 Carbon (high), Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback), Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback), Gemini 4 Argon (high) AI Studio, Gemini 4 Argon (high) (Vertex), Claude Opus 5.5 (low with fallback), Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) AI Studio, Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low with fallback), Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite AI Studio, Gemini 3.5 Flash (high) AI Studio, Gemini 3.5 Flash (minimal) AI Studio, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (non-reasoning) (AI Studio), Claude Opus 5 (low), Gemini 2.5 Flash (AI Studio), Gemini 2.5 Flash (Vertex), Claude Sonnet 5 (max), Claude Opus 4.5 Vertex, Gemini 2.5 Pro (AI Studio), Gemini 2.5 Pro Vertex, Claude Sonnet 4.6 (non-reasoning, high), Claude Opus 4.5 (non-reasoning) Vertex, Claude Opus 4.6 (non-reasoning, high), Gemini 3.5 Flash (medium), Claude Opus 4.6 (max), Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (AI Studio), Gemini 2.5 Flash (non-reasoning) (Vertex), Gemini 2.5 Flash (non-reasoning) (AI Studio), Gemma 4 26B A4B AI Studio, Gemini 3.6 Flash (high) AI Studio, Gemini 3 Flash (non-reasoning) (AI Studio), Gemini 3 Flash (AI Studio), Claude 4.5 Sonnet Vertex, Claude 4.5 Sonnet (non-reasoning) Vertex, Claude Opus 4.8 (max), Claude 4.5 Haiku Vertex, Llama 4 Scout Vertex, Claude Opus 5 (max), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Vertex), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (AI Studio), Claude 4.5 Haiku (non-reasoning) Vertex, gpt-oss-120b (low) Vertex, Gemma 4 31B (AI Studio), Claude Fable 5 (with fallback), Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max), Claude Opus 4.7 (max), gpt-oss-120b (high) Vertex, and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (AI Studio).
The most intelligent model available on Google is Gemini 4 Carbon (high) with an Intelligence Index score of 59.
The fastest model on Google by output speed is Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite AI Studio at 456.2 tokens per second.
The model with the lowest time to first answer token on Google is Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (non-reasoning) (AI Studio) at 0.30s. Lower latency means faster initial response time.
The most affordable model on Google by blended price is Gemma 4 26B A4B AI Studio at $0.00 per 1M tokens (7:2:1 cache hit/input/output ratio).
Prices on Google range from $0.00 per 1M tokens for Gemma 4 26B A4B AI Studio to $7.70 per 1M tokens for Claude Fable 5 (with fallback).
Yes, Google offers an OpenAI-compatible API, making it easy to switch from OpenAI or use existing OpenAI SDK integrations.
33 of 47 models on Google support JSON mode for structured output.
Yes, all 47 models on Google support function calling (tool use).
Yes, Google offers 36 reasoning models: Gemini 4 Carbon (high), Claude Opus 5.5 (max with fallback), Claude Sonnet 5.5 (max with fallback), Gemini 4 Argon (high) AI Studio, Gemini 4 Argon (high) (Vertex), Claude Opus 5.5 (low with fallback), Gemini 3.8 Flash (high) AI Studio, Claude Sonnet 5.5 (low with fallback), Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite AI Studio, Gemini 3.5 Flash (high) AI Studio, Claude Opus 5 (low), Gemini 2.5 Flash (AI Studio), Gemini 2.5 Flash (Vertex), Claude Sonnet 5 (max), Claude Opus 4.5 Vertex, Gemini 2.5 Pro (AI Studio), Gemini 2.5 Pro Vertex, Gemini 3.5 Flash (medium), Claude Opus 4.6 (max), Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (AI Studio), Gemma 4 26B A4B AI Studio, Gemini 3.6 Flash (high) AI Studio, Gemini 3 Flash (AI Studio), Claude 4.5 Sonnet Vertex, Claude Opus 4.8 (max), Claude 4.5 Haiku Vertex, Claude Opus 5 (max), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Vertex), Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (AI Studio), gpt-oss-120b (low) Vertex, Gemma 4 31B (AI Studio), Claude Fable 5 (with fallback), Claude Sonnet 4.6 (max), Claude Opus 4.7 (max), gpt-oss-120b (high) Vertex, and Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (AI Studio). Reasoning models use extended thinking to work through complex problems before providing an answer.
Yes, 5 of 47 models on Google are open weight models: Gemma 4 26B A4B AI Studio, Llama 4 Scout Vertex, gpt-oss-120b (low) Vertex, Gemma 4 31B (AI Studio), and gpt-oss-120b (high) Vertex.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
When choosing a model on Google, consider: intelligence (for quality-sensitive tasks), output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and features like context window size, JSON mode, or function calling support.