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Model comparison

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 44.1 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 38 shared benchmarks.

Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic

44.1

Rank #81 Confirmed

Gemini 3.6 Flash Google

54.1

Rank #33 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 38 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Sonnet 4.5 scores higher in 2 categories and Gemini 3.6 Flash in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where Gemini 3.6 Flash leads 58.8 to 26.9.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is NYT Connections (extended): 37.3% for Claude Sonnet 4.5 and 89% for Gemini 3.6 Flash.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper at $0.75 / $3.75 per million input/output tokens, against $3 / $15 for Claude Sonnet 4.5.
  • Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts more context: 1.05M tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Claude Sonnet 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Noometry Index44.154.1
Released2025-09-292026-07-21
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K1.05M
Max output64K66K
Input $ / M tokens$3$0.75
Output $ / M tokens$15$3.75
Results tracked7346

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Category by category

Coding Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 47.3 (#61), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 50.0 (#48)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena WebDev13931538
SciCode44.7%52.7%
WeirdML47.7%56.1%
LMArena Coding14891491
ALE-Bench796.15715.52
SWE-bench Verified71.3%—
DeepSWE—46.7%
FrontierCode—34.4%
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)71.4%—
SWE-bench Multilingual67%—
GSO14.7%—
AlgoTune1.52—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 38.3 (#32), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 32.3 (#65)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
Terminal-Bench46.5%—
APEX-Agents—46.9%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard73.2%—
GDPval42.5%—
Remote Labor Index2.1%—
τ²-bench Airline72%—
τ²-bench Banking25.3%—
τ²-bench Retail72.4%—
τ²-bench Telecom84.9%—
Cybench60%—
DeepResearch Bench52.6%—
OSWorld62.9%—
GDP.pdf—14%
LMArena Search1159—
METR Time Horizons67.4%—
Vending-Bench 23,839—

Reasoning Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 26.9 (#125), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 58.8 (#22)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
ARC-AGI-213.6%60.4%
NYT Connections (extended)37.3%89%
ARC-AGI-163.7%91.2%
CritPt1.1%10.6%
Chess Puzzles12%43%
LMArena Hard Prompts14621485
Mystery Game Puzzles17%30%
DTBench83.2%95.5%
LMCA38.8%44.9%
Epoch Capabilities Index146.84154.25
SimpleBench54.3%—
Kagi LLM Benchmark57.9%—
EnigmaEval6%—
EBR-Bench2.4%—
ForecastBench61.9—

Math Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 32.3 (#216), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 57.3 (#40)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)23.9%58.9%
FrontierMath Tier 42.4%22%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202577.8%94.2%
ProofBench19%36%
LMArena Math14491505
MathArena Final-Answer Competitions—70.8%
Omni-MATH55.3%—
MATH Level 597.7%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)15.2%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)4.2%—

Knowledge Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 48.4 (#76), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 67.8 (#8)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond82.3%94.1%
SimpleQA Verified30.7%66.2%
LMArena Expert14821488
Humanity's Last Exam13.7%—
MMLU-Pro86.9%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate12%—
GPQA (HELM)68.6%—

Multimodal Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 34.8 (#89), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 38.5 (#64)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Document14501456
LMArena Vision—1298
VPCT39.8%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—31.2%
Furniture Assembly—23.3%

Multilingual Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 53.4 (#69), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 56.5 (#19)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English14251469
LMArena Chinese14591531
LMArena French14581504
LMArena German14271478
LMArena Japanese13901476
LMArena Korean14031431
LMArena Russian14371487
LMArena Spanish14571475

Instruction Following Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 75.0 (#78), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 77.0 (#33)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following14591466
IFEval85%—

Long Context Too close to call

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 45.2 (#46), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 45.1 (#50)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query14761474

Writing & Preference Gemini 3.6 Flash leads

Claude Sonnet 4.5: 66.5 (#34), Gemini 3.6 Flash: 68.2 (#27)

BenchmarkClaude Sonnet 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
LMArena Text14391479
LMArena Creative Writing14421465
EQ-Bench Creative Writing16781604
LMArena Multi-Turn14651481
WildBench85.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 better than Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 54.1 to 44.1 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Gemini 3.6 Flash?

Gemini 3.6 Flash is cheaper. It lists at $0.75 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.5 lists at $3 and $15.

Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Gemini 3.6 Flash better for coding?

Gemini 3.6 Flash scores higher on coding benchmarks: 50.0 versus 47.3 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

Gemini 3.6 Flash does, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Sonnet 4.5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash share?

38 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Sonnet 4.5 has 73 scored results on Noometry and Gemini 3.6 Flash has 46.

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