Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 21.2% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.5 Flash offers 744.2K more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4.5. Gemini 2.5 Flash is $17.25 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5, released by Anthropic in September 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4.5 family that balances response quality and efficiency for coding, agentic tasks, and analytical work. It features a 200K token context window (extendable to 1M tokens in beta), 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking support. Sonnet 4.5 targets use cases that require a balance of throughput and reasoning depth, including code generation, data analysis, and multi-step agentic pipelines.
Google DeepMind
Gemini 2.5 Flash, released by Google in June 2025, is a large language model from the Gemini 2.5 family optimized for high-throughput, cost-efficient deployments with multimodal reasoning. It features a 1M token context window, hybrid thinking control, and native support for text, image, video, and audio input. Gemini 2.5 Flash targets latency-sensitive applications, document analysis, and high-volume API workloads that benefit from combined reasoning and generation in a single model.
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Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google DeepMind
2025-06-17

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google Cloud Vertex AI