Which is better: Gemini 4 Carbon or Claude Sonnet 5?

Verdict: Gemini 4 Carbon ranks higher (#5 vs #36) and wins 4 of 4 shared benchmarks; Claude Sonnet 5 costs less ($3.00/$15.0 vs $4.00/$20.0 per 1M tokens). AskClash compares Gemini 4 Carbon and Claude Sonnet 5 side by side across SWE-bench, GPQA, HLE, Terminal-Bench, coding agent scores, token pricing, AskClash ACB, and context window so you can see which model wins on each benchmark.

How do Gemini 4 Carbon and Claude Sonnet 5 compare on coding benchmarks?

The comparison table shows SWE-bench, SWE-Pro, SWE-Atlas, Terminal-Bench, DeepSWE, and coding agent index scores for both Gemini 4 Carbon and Claude Sonnet 5 when publicly disclosed.

LLM Comparison

Gemini 4 Carbon vs Claude Sonnet 5: benchmark scores, pricing & comparison.

Side-by-side Gemini 4 Carbon vs Claude Sonnet 5 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.

Verdict: Gemini 4 Carbon ranks higher (#5 vs #36) and wins 4 of 4 shared benchmarks; Claude Sonnet 5 costs less ($3.00/$15.0 vs $4.00/$20.0 per 1M tokens).

Open live leaderboard Gemini 4 Carbon model page Claude Sonnet 5 model page

Rank #5 vs #36AskClash overall scores 73.8 vs 47.5.

Pricing $4.00/$20.0 vs $3.00/$15.0Input and output token prices per 1M tokens when published.

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Gemini 4 Carbon vs Claude Sonnet 5 benchmark comparison

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

Metric	Gemini 4 Carbon	Claude Sonnet 5
Overall Score	73.8	47.5
Leaderboard Rank	#5	#36
ACB	80.8	60.8
RWT	—	8.5
Coding Agent Index	59.4	—
HLE	60.4	57.4
GPQA	—	91.1
SWE-bench	—	85.2
SWE-Pro	—	63.2
SWE-Atlas	63.7	—
Terminal-Bench	65.2	14.1
DeepSWE	—	53.8
GDPval-AA	1732.7	1618.0
OSWorld	—	81.2
Finance Agent	67.2	—
CharXiv	—	88.3
MMMU-Pro	—	77.3
Input Price (per 1M tokens)	$4.00	$3.00
Output Price (per 1M tokens)	$20.0	$15.0
Context Window	1M	1M
Benchmarks Published	10	10

Gemini 4 Carbon vs Claude Sonnet 5 head-to-head charts

Gemini 4 Carbon leads 5 and Claude Sonnet 5 leads 0 of 5 shared benchmarks. Claude Sonnet 5 is cheaper on a defined 1M-input / 200K-output workload. Charts show only benchmarks both models publish.

Gemini 4 CarbonClaude Sonnet 5

Overall

73.8Gemini 4 Carbon

47.5Claude Sonnet 5

ACB

80.8Gemini 4 Carbon

60.8Claude Sonnet 5

HLE

60.4Gemini 4 Carbon

57.4Claude Sonnet 5

Terminal-Bench

65.2Gemini 4 Carbon

14.1Claude Sonnet 5

GDPval-AA

1732.7Gemini 4 Carbon

1618.0Claude Sonnet 5

Gemini 4 Carbon

Input$4.00

Output$20.0

Workload$8.00

Context1M

Claude Sonnet 5

Input$3.00

Output$15.0

Workload$6.00

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.