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| Attribute | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Previewgemini-3.1-flash-lite-preview | Gemini 4 Argongemini-4-argon | Claude Fable 5.2claude-fable-5.2 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $0.25 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $8.00 / 1M |
| Output | $1.50 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M | $40.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (5m) | $0.25 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $10.00 / 1M |
| Cache Write (1h) | $0.25 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $16.00 / 1M |
| Cache Read | $0.25 / 1M | $2.00 / 1M | $0.20 / 1M |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1.0M | 1M | 1M |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Anthropic | ||
| Category | chat | chat | chat |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is Google's high-efficiency model designed for high-volume and cost-sensitive workloads. It improves overall quality compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite while approaching the performance of Gemini 2.5 Flash across key capabilities. The model delivers enhancements in audio input/ASR, RAG snippet ranking, translation, data extraction, and code completion, and supports configurable thinking levels (minimal, low, medium, high) for flexible cost–performance optimization. With pricing at roughly half the cost of Gemini 3 Flash, it is well suited for large-scale production deployments. | Gemini 4 Argon is Google's flagship reasoning model, built for complex software engineering, deep mathematical and scientific problem solving, and autonomous multi-step agents. Google trained it to keep context across long, multi-step tasks and to turn long documents mixing text, tables, charts and images into a single grounded output. It leads the Vals Index across finance, legal, coding and tax work, and supports long decode of up to 1M output tokens in a single response. | Claude Fable 5.2 is Anthropic's most capable model for advanced technical work and open-ended problem solving, delivering significant improvements in coding, reasoning, and vision over Fable 5.1. It excels at exceptionally complex tasks, including large-scale software migrations, electronic system design, and advanced scientific and mathematical research. With up to 30% faster output generation, clearer communication, and always-on adaptive extended thinking, Fable 5.2 supports configurable reasoning effort from low to max (default high), with thinking preserved across turns. Designed for frontier engineering, scientific discovery, and ambitious long-horizon agentic workflows, it complements Opus 5.5 as a specialized option for the most demanding technical challenges. |