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Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 45.0% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B offers 792.8K more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4.5. Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B is $17.63 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was developed to bridge human thinking and machine assistance, allowing people to work with language and tools in a more conversational and natural way. Built with a focus on turning ideas into results, it represents an evolution in making AI feel less mechanical while maintaining strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and collaborative tasks.
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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.
1 year newer
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
2024-03-15
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
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Pricing Comparison
Cost per million tokens (USD)
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Input:$3.00
Output:$15.00
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Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Input:$0.07
Output:$0.30($17.63 cheaper)
Performance Metrics
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Average Score:83.4%(+45.0%)
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Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Average Score:38.4%
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Knowledge Cutoff
Training data recency comparison
Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
2024-10-01
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
More recent knowledge cutoff means awareness of newer technologies and frameworks
Provider Availability & Performance
Available providers and their performance metrics
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
2 providers
Anthropic
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
ZeroEval
Throughput: 42 tok/s
Latency: 0.4ms
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Avg Score:83.4%(+45.0%)
Providers:2
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Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B
Avg Score:38.4%
Providers:1