Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude 3.5 Sonnet leads with 19.0% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B offers 656.8K more tokens in context window than Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is $17.63 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 8B was developed as an ultra-compact variant of Gemini 1.5 Flash, designed to deliver multimodal capabilities with minimal resource requirements. Built for deployment scenarios where efficiency is critical, it provides a lightweight option for applications requiring fast, cost-effective AI processing.
7 months newer

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
2024-03-15

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

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 5 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
2024-10-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B

Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B