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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-09-23.

Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch) Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
Vendorgoogleanthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score34.263.9
Input Price$0.15/M$1.00/M
Output Price$1.25/M$5.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,000,000
Max Output65,536128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index36.663.0

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (batch)Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
SQL Generation 138 141
Code Review 139 144
Code Completion 132 120
Code Refactoring 141 146
Bug Fixing 143 148
Unit Test Generation 128 131
Code Documentation 135 136
Regex Writing 123 125
CI/CD Pipelines 124 127
Frontend Component Design 126 129
Data Analysis 129 133
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 135 135
ETL Scripting 133 136
JSON Extraction 131 122
Bulk Data Labeling 129 120
OCR / Document Parsing 132 134
Table Extraction from PDFs 132 134
Long-Document Summarization 143 147
Short-Form Summarization 125 118
Blog Post Writing 126 129

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

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