Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Both models show comparable benchmark performance. Gemini 2.5 Flash offers 786.1K more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4. Gemini 2.5 Flash is $15.20 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4 was created as the balanced offering in the Claude 4 family, designed to provide strong intelligence with practical speed and cost efficiency. Built to serve as a versatile workhorse for diverse applications, it balances advanced capabilities with operational considerations for everyday enterprise and consumer use.
Gemini 2.5 Flash represents a continued evolution of Google's efficient multimodal models, designed to deliver enhanced capabilities while maintaining the performance characteristics valued in the Flash series. Built to serve high-throughput applications with improved quality, it advances the balance between speed and intelligence.
2 days newer

Gemini 2.5 Flash
2025-05-20

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

Gemini 2.5 Flash
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 4 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4

Gemini 2.5 Flash
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude Sonnet 4

Gemini 2.5 Flash
Gemini 2.5 Flash
2025-01-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Claude Sonnet 4

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Gemini 2.5 Flash
ZeroEval