Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 24.3% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 1.5 Pro offers 1.8M more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4.5. Gemini 1.5 Pro is $5.50 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
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.
Gemini 1.5 Pro was introduced as Google's advanced multimodal model with an expanded context window, designed to comprehend and reason across long documents, videos, and audio. Built to handle complex, information-rich tasks, it brought breakthrough capabilities in processing extended context while maintaining high-quality reasoning and generation.
1 year newer

Gemini 1.5 Pro
2024-05-01

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 1.5 Pro
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 1.5 Pro
Gemini 1.5 Pro
2023-11-01
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
ZeroEval


Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 1.5 Pro

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 1.5 Pro
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