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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)

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

	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
Vendor	google	anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	56.1	63.9
Input Price	$0.75/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$3.75/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	56.1	63.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
SQL Generation	140	141
Code Review	142	144
Code Completion	132	120
Code Refactoring	145	146
Bug Fixing	146	148
Unit Test Generation	130	131
Code Documentation	136	136
Regex Writing	124	125
CI/CD Pipelines	126	127
Frontend Component Design	128	129
Data Analysis	132	133
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	135	135
ETL Scripting	135	136
JSON Extraction	131	122
Bulk Data Labeling	128	120
OCR / Document Parsing	133	134
Table Extraction from PDFs	133	134
Long-Document Summarization	146	147
Short-Form Summarization	125	118
Blog Post Writing	128	129

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