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Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite 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	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
Vendor	google	anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	34.2	63.9
Input Price	$0.30/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$2.50/M	$5.00/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,000,000
Max Output	65,536	128,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	36.6	63.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite	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	134	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 →