Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 21.3% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.0 Flash offers 792.8K more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4.5. Gemini 2.0 Flash is $17.50 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 2.0 Flash was developed as the next generation of Google's fast multimodal model, designed to provide improved performance while maintaining the speed and efficiency that defines the Flash family. Built with enhanced reasoning and generation capabilities, it serves applications requiring both quality and responsiveness.
10 months newer

Gemini 2.0 Flash
2024-12-01

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

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 2.0 Flash
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 1 common benchmarks

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 2.0 Flash
Gemini 2.0 Flash
2024-08-01
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01-31
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
ZeroEval


Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 2.0 Flash

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Gemini 2.0 Flash
Gemini 2.0 Flash