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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch) vs Google Gemini Flash Latest

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-07-30.

	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)	Google Gemini Flash Latest
Vendor	anthropic	~google
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	90.4	-
Input Price	$1.00/M	$1.50/M
Output Price	$5.00/M	$7.50/M
Context Window	1,000,000	1,048,576
Max Output	128,000	65,536
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	-	✓
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	88.0	-
ai_index_agentic	77.0	-
ai_index_coding	100.0	-

Who wins by task?

Task	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)	Google Gemini Flash Latest
SQL Generation	171	133
Code Review	167	132
Code Completion	120	118
Code Refactoring	164	136
Bug Fixing	180	136
Unit Test Generation	154	124
Code Documentation	143	130
Regex Writing	136	118
CI/CD Pipelines	144	120
Frontend Component Design	146	122
Data Analysis	171	124
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	154	133
ETL Scripting	154	128
JSON Extraction	140	122
Bulk Data Labeling	126	119
OCR / Document Parsing	146	131
Table Extraction from PDFs	146	131
Long-Document Summarization	160	137
Short-Form Summarization	123	114
Blog Post Writing	140	121

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →