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Gemini 2.5 FlashvsSonar

Gemini 2.5 Flash and Sonar do not yet share a public benchmark, so quality cannot be compared apples-to-apples. Sonar is 1.4x cheaper per token. Gemini 2.5 Flash has the larger context window (1.0M tokens).

Benchmarks from cited public sources; pricing from official pages; status from official provider feeds.

Shared benchmarks
0
no overlap yet
Cheaper per token
Sonar
1.4x cheaper, input + output
Larger context
Gemini 2.5 Flash
1.0M tokens
Provider uptime (30d)
100% · 100%
Google · Perplexity
Gemini 2.5 Flash
Google · released 2025-06-17
textvisionaudio
Context
1.0M
Max out
66K
Input /1M
$0.3
Output /1M
$2.5
Cached /1M
$0.03
Scores
9 · 5 core
Sonar
Perplexity · released 2025-01-21
text
Context
128K
Max out
Input /1M
$1
Output /1M
$1
Cached /1M
Scores
1 · 0 core
Quality

Benchmark matrix

BenchmarkGemini 2.5 FlashSonarΔEdge
Reported by both · 0
No public benchmark is reported for both models yet.
Only Gemini 2.5 Flash reports · 8
SWE-bench Verified48.9% not reported
GPQA Diamond82.8% not reported
AIME 202572% not reported
Humanity's Last Exam (no tools)11% not reported
LMArena Elo1417.3 not reported
Aider Polyglot56.7% not reported
LiveCodeBench59.3% not reported
MMMU79.7% not reported
Only Sonar reports · 1
SimpleQA F-scorenot reported77.3%
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 Gemini 2.5 Flash minus Sonar 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

SpecGemini 2.5 FlashSonarEdge
Context window1.0M tokens128K tokensGemini 2.5 Flash
Max output66K tokens
Input price / 1M$0.3 $1 Gemini 2.5 Flash
Output price / 1M$2.5 $1 Sonar
Cached input / 1M$0.03
Input + output / 1M
Lower is cheaper. List prices; batch, tool and regional fees excluded.
$2.8$2Sonar
Modalitiestext · vision · audiotextGemini 2.5 Flash
Released2025-06-172025-01-21
Cited benchmark scores91
Reliability

Provider status

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