$ diff gemini-3-6-flash claude-sonnet-5
Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Claude Sonnet 5
Google DeepMind and Anthropic, side by side. Every value below is the one recorded on the model’s own wiki page, with its citation — nothing is estimated.
Google DeepMindGemini 3.6 Flash
- context
- 1.0M
- weights
- closed
- $/M in
- $1.5
- $/M out
- $7.5
- context
- 1M
- weights
- closed
- $/M in
- $3
- $/M out
- $15
What actually differs
- Context window
- Gemini 3.6 Flash takes 1.0M against 1M — modestly more room in a single request.
- Input price
- Gemini 3.6 Flash at $1.5/M against $3/M — 2.0× cheaper to feed. Standard rates: one of these labs also quotes a lower cached-input tier, which applies only when a prefix is reused — see the full spec below.
- Output price
- Gemini 3.6 Flash at $7.5/M against $15/M — 2.0× cheaper to generate. Output dominates the bill on most agentic workloads, where the model writes far more than it reads.
- Recency
- Gemini 3.6 Flash shipped 21 days after Claude Sonnet 5 (2026-07-21 vs 2026-06-30).
Full spec
| Attribute | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Claude Sonnet 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Google DeepMind | Anthropic |
| Released | 2026-07-21 | 2026-06-30 |
| Context window | 1,048,576 tokens (1M) | 1M tokens |
| Pricing | $1.50/M input · $7.50/M output | $2/M input · $10/M output (promo, through 2026-08-31); $3/M input · $15/M output (standard, from 2026-09-01) |
| License | proprietary | proprietary (API-only; no weight release) |
| Availability | Gemini API, Google AI Studio, Android Studio, Vertex AI, consumer Gemini app, Google Search, GitHub Copilot | Claude.ai (all tiers), Claude Code, API |
Values come from Gemini 3.6 Flash and Claude Sonnet 5, where each is cited to its source. This page states no benchmark result and ranks neither model — it puts two published specifications next to each other. Where a lab has not published a figure, the row says so rather than guessing. How these pages are produced.