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Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
Vendor	google	anthropic
Quality Score	100	100
Benchmark Score	84.4	91.6
Input Price	$1.50/M	$1.00/M
Output Price	$7.50/M	$5.00/M
Context Window	1,048,576	1,000,000
Max Output	65,536	128,000
Tool Calling	✓	✓
Structured Output	✓	✓
Reasoning Mode	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio	✓	-
Benchmark Scores
ai_index	85.1	91.2
ai_index_agentic	66.8	82.0
ai_index_coding	100.0	100.0

Who wins by task?

Task	Google: Gemini 3.6 Flash	Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 5 (batch)
SQL Generation	169	172
Code Review	165	168
Code Completion	119	120
Code Refactoring	163	165
Bug Fixing	178	182
Unit Test Generation	153	155
Code Documentation	141	143
Regex Writing	134	136
CI/CD Pipelines	143	145
Frontend Component Design	145	147
Data Analysis	168	172
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup	153	154
ETL Scripting	153	155
JSON Extraction	139	140
Bulk Data Labeling	125	126
OCR / Document Parsing	146	147
Table Extraction from PDFs	146	147
Long-Document Summarization	158	160
Short-Form Summarization	122	123
Blog Post Writing	139	141

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →