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Google Gemini Flash Latest vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-05-12.

Google Gemini Flash Latest Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Vendor~googleanthropic
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-80.0
Input Price$0.50/M$3.00/M
Output Price$3.00/M$15.00/M
Context Window1,048,5761,000,000
Max Output65,536128,000
Tool Calling
Structured Output
Reasoning Mode
Vision
Audio-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index-85.3
ai_index_agentic-100.0
ai_index_coding-84.1
aider_polyglot-61.3

Who wins by task?

TaskGoogle Gemini Flash LatestAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
SQL Generation 133 181
Code Review 132 177
Code Completion 131 118
Code Refactoring 136 172
Bug Fixing 136 194
Unit Test Generation 124 163
Code Documentation 131 144
Regex Writing 119 139
CI/CD Pipelines 120 152
Frontend Component Design 122 153
Data Analysis 124 184
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 133 158
ETL Scripting 128 162
JSON Extraction 131 141
Bulk Data Labeling 128 123
OCR / Document Parsing 131 150
Table Extraction from PDFs 131 150
Long-Document Summarization 137 166
Short-Form Summarization 123 123
Blog Post Writing 121 145

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

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