LLM Comparison

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash: benchmark scores, pricing & comparison.

Side-by-side Claude Sonnet 5 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash comparison across SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, coding agent scores, token pricing, context window, and AskClash RWT. Green marks the winner on each benchmark.

Open live leaderboardClaude Sonnet 5 model pageGemini 3.6 Flash model page
Rank #7 vs #17AskClash overall scores 76.9 vs 62.9.
Pricing $3.00/$15.0 vs $1.50/$7.50Input and output token prices per 1M tokens when published.
Proprietary vs ProprietaryAnthropic vs Google.

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash benchmark comparison

Green cells highlight the winning model for each metric. Scores are cached from the AskClash LLM leaderboard snapshot.

MetricClaude Sonnet 5Gemini 3.6 Flash
Overall Score76.962.9
Leaderboard Rank#7#17
RWT8.5—
HLE57.438.0
GPQA91.192.8
SWE-bench85.2—
SWE-Pro63.258.7
Terminal-Bench80.478.0
DeepSWE53.849.0
OSWorld81.283.0
CharXiv88.385.2
MMMU-Pro77.383.2
MRCR—91.8
Input Price (per 1M tokens)$3.00$1.50
Output Price (per 1M tokens)$15.0$7.50
Context Window1M1M
Benchmarks Published1111

Claude Sonnet 5 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash head-to-head charts

Claude Sonnet 5 leads 6 and Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 3 of 9 shared benchmarks. Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper on a defined 1M-input / 200K-output workload. Charts show only benchmarks both models publish.

Claude Sonnet 5Gemini 3.6 Flash
Overall
76.9Claude Sonnet 5
62.9Gemini 3.6 Flash
HLE
57.4Claude Sonnet 5
38.0Gemini 3.6 Flash
GPQA
91.1Claude Sonnet 5
92.8Gemini 3.6 Flash
SWE-Pro
63.2Claude Sonnet 5
58.7Gemini 3.6 Flash
Terminal-Bench
80.4Claude Sonnet 5
78.0Gemini 3.6 Flash
DeepSWE
53.8Claude Sonnet 5
49.0Gemini 3.6 Flash
OSWorld
81.2Claude Sonnet 5
83.0Gemini 3.6 Flash
CharXiv
88.3Claude Sonnet 5
85.2Gemini 3.6 Flash
MMMU-Pro
77.3Claude Sonnet 5
83.2Gemini 3.6 Flash
Claude Sonnet 5
Input$3.00
Output$15.0
Workload$6.00
Context1M
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Input$1.50
Output$7.50
Workload$3.00
Context1M

Workload = published cost of 1M input + 200K output tokens. Open the live leaderboard for interactive compare charts.

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How to read this comparison

Benchmark scores

Higher is better for all benchmark scores (SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, etc.). Green marks the model with the higher score.

Token pricing

Lower is better for input and output prices. Green marks the cheaper model per 1M tokens.

Coverage matters

Models with fewer disclosed benchmark cells may have inflated percentile scores. Check the benchmark cell count for context.

This comparison page is generated from the AskClash LLM leaderboard cache. Open the live leaderboard for real-time scores and interactive filtering.