Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 9.3% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 1.5 Flash offers 656.8K more tokens in context window than Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Gemini 1.5 Flash is $17.25 cheaper per million tokens. Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available on 3 providers. Overall, Claude 3.5 Sonnet is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
This upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet was released with significant improvements in coding and agentic tool use. Built to deliver enhanced performance in software engineering tasks, it brought substantial gains in reasoning and problem-solving while introducing the groundbreaking computer use capability in public beta, allowing it to interact with computer interfaces like a human.
Gemini 1.5 Flash was created as a fast and efficient multimodal model, designed to provide quick responses while handling text, images, and other modalities. Built for applications requiring low latency and high throughput, it balances capability with speed to serve real-time and high-volume use cases.
5 months newer

Gemini 1.5 Flash
2024-05-01

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Gemini 1.5 Flash
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 10 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Gemini 1.5 Flash
Gemini 1.5 Flash
2023-11-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Gemini 1.5 Flash

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Gemini 1.5 Flash

Gemini 1.5 Flash