Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash leads with 12.4% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.5 Flash offers 800.1K more tokens in context window than Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Gemini 2.5 Flash is $17.25 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Gemini 2.5 Flash is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Sonnet, updated by Anthropic in October 2024 (originally released June 2024), is a large language model from the Claude 3.5 family that delivered strong performance in coding, reasoning, and instruction-following at its release. It supports a 200K token context window, 8K maximum output tokens, and native image understanding including screenshot analysis and document comprehension. Claude 3.5 Sonnet targets general-purpose development tasks, document analysis, and applications requiring reliable instruction following with visual input support.
Google DeepMind
Gemini 2.5 Flash, released by Google in June 2025, is a large language model from the Gemini 2.5 family optimized for high-throughput, cost-efficient deployments with multimodal reasoning. It features a 1M token context window, hybrid thinking control, and native support for text, image, video, and audio input. Gemini 2.5 Flash targets latency-sensitive applications, document analysis, and high-volume API workloads that benefit from combined reasoning and generation in a single model.
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Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
2024-10-22

Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google DeepMind
2025-06-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
2024-04
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google Cloud Vertex AI