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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

anthropic logoAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6VSgoogle logoGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Litegoogle/gemini-3.5-flash-lite

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite wins on more metrics (8 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Intelligence Index35.936.5✓
Coding Index—49.3✓
GPQA Diamond80%84%✓
Design Arena Elo1315✓—
Speed (tokens/sec)—341✓
Latency—880ms✓
Input price /M$3.00$0.300✓
Output price /M$15.00$2.50✓
Context window1M1.0M✓
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONVisionReasoningToolsJSONVisionAudio
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 details →Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite details →