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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 2026-07-30.

	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
Vendor	google	anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	83.9	90.4
Input Price	$1.50/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$7.50/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	82.6	88.0
ai_index_agentic	63.9	77.0
ai_index_coding	100.0	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
SQL Generation	169	171
Code Review	165	167
Code Completion	119	120
Code Refactoring	162	164
Bug Fixing	177	180
Unit Test Generation	153	154
Code Documentation	141	143
Regex Writing	134	136
CI/CD Pipelines	143	144
Frontend Component Design	145	146
Data Analysis	167	171
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	154
ETL Scripting	153	154
JSON Extraction	139	140
Bulk Data Labeling	124	126
OCR / Document Parsing	146	146
Table Extraction from PDFs	146	146
Long-Document Summarization	158	160
Short-Form Summarization	122	123
Blog Post Writing	138	140

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