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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 vs Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash

anthropic logoAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 5anthropic/claude-sonnet-5VSgoogle logoGoogle: Gemini 3.6 Flashgoogle/gemini-3.6-flash

Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash wins on more metrics (6 of 9), but the right pick depends on what you optimize for — see the breakdown below.

MetricAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 5Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash
Intelligence Index53.4✓50.1
Coding Index71.5✓69.2
GPQA Diamond91%93%✓
Design Arena Elo1239✓—
Speed (tokens/sec)—175✓
Latency—1.7s✓
Input price /M$2.00$1.50✓
Output price /M$10.00$7.50✓
Context window1M1.0M✓
CapabilitiesReasoningToolsJSONVisionReasoningToolsJSONVisionAudio
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 details →Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash details →