Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4 leads with 18.5% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite offers 786.1K more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is $17.50 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Sonnet 4 is available on 4 providers. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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 Lite was created as the most efficient option in the Gemini 2.5 family, designed to provide cutting-edge capabilities with minimal computational overhead. Built for applications where cost and latency are primary concerns, it extends advanced multimodal understanding to resource-conscious deployments.
26 days newer

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
2025-05-22

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
2025-06-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4

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

Claude Sonnet 4

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude Sonnet 4

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

Claude Sonnet 4
Anthropic
Bedrock
ZeroEval

Claude Sonnet 4

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Claude Sonnet 4

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite