Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 32.2% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.5 Flash offers 744.2K more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4. Gemini 2.5 Flash is $17.25 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4, released by Anthropic in May 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4 family that delivers a balance of performance and efficiency for coding, reasoning, and analytical tasks. It features a 200K token context window (extendable to 1M tokens in beta), 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking support. Sonnet 4 targets development workflows, document analysis, and applications that benefit from the performance characteristics of the Claude 4 generation.
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 Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-14

Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google DeepMind
2025-06-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
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Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Gemini 2.5 Flash
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Gemini 2.5 Flash
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Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google Cloud Vertex AI