Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 4.6% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.5 Pro offers 744.2K more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4.5. Gemini 2.5 Pro is $6.75 cheaper per million tokens. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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 Pro, released by Google in May 2025, is a large language model from the Gemini 2.5 family designed for complex reasoning, coding, and long-context analysis tasks. It features a 1M token context window, native support for text, image, video, and audio input, and integrated thinking capabilities for multi-step problem solving. Gemini 2.5 Pro targets advanced coding workflows, scientific reasoning, and applications requiring deep understanding across large, mixed-modality contexts.
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Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google DeepMind
2025-05-20

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 common benchmarks
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
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 Pro
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google Cloud Vertex AI