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Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 vs Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash

Claude Sonnet 5 (medium) leads on average score with 8.3 vs 8.2. Gemini 2.5 Flash (medium) has the lower benchmark cost at $0.643 vs $0.922. Claude Sonnet 5 (medium) is faster at 12.52s vs 21.18s, with pass rates of 80.3% vs 71.2%.

Recommended modelClaude Sonnet 5 (medium)It has the best score here (8.3), while responding about 1.7x faster than Gemini 2.5 Flash (medium).

Last updated at: 2026-07-17

Metric Claude Sonnet 5 Claude Sonnet 5 medium Release: 2026-06-30 Gemini 2.5 Flash Gemini 2.5 Flash medium Release: 2025-06-17
Score 8.3 8.2
Rank #23 #25
Reliability 10.0 10.0
Consistency 9.0 9.6
Tests Correct
Attempt pass rate 80.3% 71.2%
Flaky tests 3 1
Total Runs 66 66
Cost per result 5.760 4.286
Total Cost $0.922 $0.643
Input Price $2.000 / 1M $0.300 / 1M
Output Price $10.000 / 1M $2.500 / 1M
Total Input Tokens 145,956 132,498
Output Tokens 52,333 12,739
Reasoning Tokens 10,874 228,464
Response Time (avg) 12.52s 21.18s
Response Time (max) 66.71s 140.50s
Response Time (total) 275.42s 465.89s

Hamster playing table tennis

Prompt: Create a detailed SVG illustration of a hamster playing table tennis.

#23 Claude Sonnet 5

medium
Cost
$0.007
Time
6.4s
Tokens
832 tok

#25 Gemini 2.5 Flash

medium
Invalid SVG
Cost
$0.000
Time
274.0s
Tokens
0 tok

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Category Breakdown

Coding Score Consistency Attempt pass rate Flaky tests Tests Correct Response Time (avg) Input Tokens Output Tokens Reasoning Tokens
Claude Sonnet 5 9.0 7.9 88.9% 1 17.28s 10,590 13,153 2,379
Gemini 2.5 Flash 7.8 10.0 66.7% 0 41.01s 6,669 543 32,303

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