Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Claude Sonnet 5
The mid-tier choice between Google and Anthropic.
Side by side
| Attribute | Gemini 3.6 Flash | Claude Sonnet 5 |
|---|---|---|
| Input, per 1M tokens | $1.50 | $2.00 |
| Output, per 1M tokens | $7.50 | $10.00 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Provider | Anthropic | |
| Tokenizer | Google tokenizer | Anthropic tokenizer |
| Long-context tier | none | none |
| Retires | no date announced | no date announced |
Which to choose
- Reading more than you write
- Gemini 3.6 Flash $1.50 against Claude Sonnet 5 $2 per million input tokens — a modest gap of 1.3x.
- 10,000 in, 1,000 out
- $0.0225 on Gemini 3.6 Flash, $0.0300 on Claude Sonnet 5. Over 10,000 such calls that is $75.00 in Gemini 3.6 Flash's favour.
- How these counts were arrived at
- Both estimated, and on different ratios (gemini, claude-4-7). Small differences between them are noise.
What this page does not tell you. Which model produces better answers. That depends on your task, and this site has no benchmark data — everything above is drawn from published pricing and specifications. Compare quality by running your own prompts through both.