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Claude 3 Sonnet vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads with 24.2% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite offers 714.1K more tokens in context window than Claude 3 Sonnet. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is $17.50 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Overall, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Anthropic
Claude 3 Sonnet was introduced as the balanced middle tier of the Claude 3 family, offering a combination of strong capabilities and operational speed. Designed to provide an optimal tradeoff between intelligence and performance for everyday tasks, it served as a versatile solution for a wide range of enterprise and consumer applications.
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Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite was created as the most efficient option in the Gemini 2.5 family, designed to provide cutting-edge capabilities with minimal computational overhead. Built for applications where cost and latency are primary concerns, it extends advanced multimodal understanding to resource-conscious deployments.
1 year newer
Claude 3 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-02-29
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
2025-06-17
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude 3 Sonnet
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Input:$0.10
Output:$0.40($17.50 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Claude 3 Sonnet
Average Score:40.4%
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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Average Score:64.6%(+24.2%)
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
2025-01-01
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude 3 Sonnet
3 providers
Anthropic
Throughput: 100 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
Bedrock
Throughput: 120 tok/s
Latency: 0.5ms
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
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Claude 3 Sonnet
Avg Score:40.4%
Providers:3
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Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Avg Score:64.6%(+24.2%)
Providers:1