Anthropic vs Google: pricing and rate limits compared
As of the latest verified sweep, Anthropic's Sonnet tier runs $0.10 against Google's Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview tier at $2.00. See every tracked tier and rate limit for both vendors below, refreshed the moment VendorSpies detects a change on either published rate card.
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