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Claude Sonnet 5vsGemini 2.5 Pro
Claude Sonnet 5 leads 6 of 6 shared benchmarks. Gemini 2.5 Pro is 1.1x cheaper per token. Gemini 2.5 Pro has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).
Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.
Shared benchmarks
6 – 0
Claude Sonnet 5 leads
Cheaper per token
Gemini 2.5 Pro
1.1x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 2.5 Pro
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Anthropic · Google
Claude Sonnet 5
Anthropic · released 2026-06-30
textvision
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Google · released 2025-06-17
textvisionaudio
Quality
Benchmark matrix
6 shared · 2 only Claude Sonnet 5 · 6 only Gemini 2.5 Pro| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Δ | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reported by both · 6 | ||||
| SWE-bench Verified | 85.2% ↗ | 59.6% ↗ | +25.6 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| GPQA Diamond | 90.5% ↗epoch | 86.4% ↗ | +4.1 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Humanity's Last Exam (no tools) | 43.2% ↗ | 21.6% ↗ | +21.6 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 29.3% ↗epoch | 0% ↗epoch | +29.3 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 v2 (Epoch AI run) | 65.6% ↗epoch | 24.6% ↗epoch | +41 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 (Epoch AI run) | 94.7% ↗epoch | 84.7% ↗epoch | +10 pt | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Only Claude Sonnet 5 reports · 2 | ||||
| Humanity's Last Exam (with tools) | 57.4% ↗ | not reported | — | — |
| SimpleQA Verified | 33.7% ↗epoch | not reported | — | — |
| Only Gemini 2.5 Pro reports · 6 | ||||
| AIME 2025 | not reported | 88% ↗ | — | — |
| LMArena Elo | not reported | 1457.8 ↗ | — | — |
| Aider Polyglot | not reported | 82.2% ↗ | — | — |
| LiveCodeBench | not reported | 74.2% ↗ | — | — |
| MMMU | not reported | 82% ↗ | — | — |
| SWE-bench Verified (Epoch AI run) | not reported | 57.6% ↗epoch | — | — |
Scores tagged "epoch" or "matharena" are independent runs, used only where the lab has not published its own; ⚠ marks rows MathArena flags as released after the competition. Higher is better on every row. Δ is Claude Sonnet 5 minus Gemini 2.5 Pro in the benchmark's own unit. "Not reported" means the lab has not published that figure; it is not a zero. ↗ opens the source.
Specs & pricing
Side by side
Official pricing pages and model cards| Spec | Claude Sonnet 5 | Gemini 2.5 Pro | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.0M tokens | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 66K tokens | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| Input price / 1M | $2 ↗ | $1.25 ↗ | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Output price / 1M | $10 ↗ | $10 ↗ | Tie |
| Cached input / 1M | $0.2 ↗ | $0.125 ↗ | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Input + output / 1M Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded. | $12 | $11.25 | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Modalities | text · vision | text · vision · audio | Gemini 2.5 Pro |
| Released | 2026-06-30 | 2025-06-17 | — |
| Cited benchmark scores | 8 | 14 | — |
Reliability
Provider status
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