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Specifications
General specifications
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Specifications for Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash
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API pricing for Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash
Key to the marks:better valuebetter, but not conclusivetie
Pricing by provider
Direct developer pricing and provider endpoint tariffs routed through OpenRouter are listed separately. Prices are in USD per 1M tokens. Context-dependent direct tiers plus regional, Flex, Priority, and other OpenRouter tariffs remain individually identifiable.
Provider pricing for Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash
Only published results with the same benchmark version, task, metric, and comparison cohort are paired. Different reasoning levels, agents, harnesses, or output limits appear directly in the table.
Capability profile from matched benchmarks
Each axis averages directly matched benchmark families. A value of 100 means the stronger value within this pair, not a universal quality score.
Claude Sonnet 5
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Coding: 99.2 / 85.3 (8 benchmark families)
Reasoning: 97.4 / 99.9 (2 benchmark families)
Mathematics: 99 / 100 (1 benchmark family)
Knowledge: 98.9 / 100 (2 benchmark families)
Finance: 99.3 / 95.5 (7 benchmark families)
Legal: 99.1 / 81.6 (4 benchmark families)
Agentic tasks: 100 / 99 (1 benchmark family)
Multimodal: 93.9 / 100 (1 benchmark family)
59 matched rows from 28 benchmark families were considered. The radar shows 8 of 14 comparable categories.
Claude Sonnet 5Gemini 3.6 Flash
Code MigrationOverall. Higher is better. No documented setup difference
Claude Sonnet 5Winner44.392 %
Gemini 3.6 Flash30.928 %
CorpFin v2Overall. Higher is better. No documented setup difference
Claude Sonnet 5Winner66.977 %
Gemini 3.6 Flash63.326 %
CyberBench v1.1Overall. Higher is better. No documented setup difference
Claude Sonnet 5Winner61.905 %
Gemini 3.6 Flash45.357 %
EMBOverall. Higher is better. No documented setup difference
Claude Sonnet 5Winner66.316 %
Gemini 3.6 Flash65.411 %
Finance Agent (v2)Overall. Higher is better. No documented setup difference
Claude Sonnet 553.909 %
Gemini 3.6 FlashWinner56.296 %
GPQA DiamondOverall. Higher is better. No documented setup difference
Claude Sonnet 588.889 %
Gemini 3.6 FlashWinner93.434 %
Harvey's Legal Agent BenchmarkOverall · Task fully resolved. Higher is better. No documented setup difference
Claude Sonnet 5Winner5 %
Gemini 3.6 Flash3.333 %
IOIOverall. Higher is better. No documented setup difference
Claude Sonnet 5Winner45 %
Gemini 3.6 Flash35.056 %
Legal Research BenchOverall · All-pass. Higher is better. No documented setup difference
Claude Sonnet 5Winner41.827 %
Gemini 3.6 Flash25 %
LegalBenchOverall. Higher is better. No documented setup difference
Claude Sonnet 583.922 %
Gemini 3.6 FlashWinner86.705 %
LiveCodeBench v6Overall. Higher is better. No documented setup difference
Claude Sonnet 582.429 %
Gemini 3.6 FlashWinner88.08 %
LMArena Text, Style ControlOverall. Higher is better. No documented setup difference
Claude Sonnet 51,461.526
Gemini 3.6 FlashWinner1,481.934
Key to the marks:better valuebetter, but not conclusivetie
Benchmark scores for Claude Sonnet 5 and Gemini 3.6 Flash
Benchmark and task
Claude Sonnet 5
Gemini 3.6 Flash
Source
Code MigrationOverallTest details
No documented difference in the test setupVersion: 1Metric: accuracyScoring: Higher is better
No documented difference in the test setupVersion: style-control-v1Metric: style-controlled Bradley-Terry ratingScoring: Higher is betterClaude Sonnet 5: Snapshot: claude-sonnet-5-high, Reasoning: high, Harness: Arena text, style control Gemini 3.6 Flash: Snapshot: gemini-3.6-flash-high, Reasoning: high, Harness: Arena text, style controlClaude Sonnet 5: Style-controlled Arena rating from 43,340 anonymous pairwise votes.Gemini 3.6 Flash: Style-controlled Arena rating from 33,739 anonymous pairwise votes.
1,461.526
95% confidence interval: ±4.283The Arena score measures human preference rather than a fixed capability test. The confidence interval and model configuration are part of the result.
Winner1,481.934
95% confidence interval: ±4.524The Arena score measures human preference rather than a fixed capability test. The confidence interval and model configuration are part of the result.
LMArena Text, Style ControlBusiness, management and financeTest details
No documented difference in the test setupNo clear leadVersion: style-control-v1Metric: style-controlled Bradley-Terry ratingScoring: Higher is betterClaude Sonnet 5: Snapshot: claude-sonnet-5-high, Reasoning: high, Harness: Arena text, style control Gemini 3.6 Flash: Snapshot: gemini-3.6-flash-high, Reasoning: high, Harness: Arena text, style controlClaude Sonnet 5: Style-controlled Arena rating from 8,542 anonymous pairwise votes.Gemini 3.6 Flash: Style-controlled Arena rating from 6,456 anonymous pairwise votes.
1,464.812
95% confidence interval: ±7.251The Arena score measures human preference rather than a fixed capability test. The confidence interval and model configuration are part of the result.
No clear lead1,472.22
95% confidence interval: ±8.085The Arena score measures human preference rather than a fixed capability test. The confidence interval and model configuration are part of the result.
No documented difference in the test setupVersion: style-control-v1Metric: style-controlled Bradley-Terry ratingScoring: Higher is betterClaude Sonnet 5: Snapshot: claude-sonnet-5-high, Reasoning: high, Harness: Arena text, style control Gemini 3.6 Flash: Snapshot: gemini-3.6-flash-high, Reasoning: high, Harness: Arena text, style controlClaude Sonnet 5: Style-controlled Arena rating from 3,360 anonymous pairwise votes.Gemini 3.6 Flash: Style-controlled Arena rating from 2,546 anonymous pairwise votes.
1,495
95% confidence interval: ±10.767The Arena score measures human preference rather than a fixed capability test. The confidence interval and model configuration are part of the result.
Winner1,529.331
95% confidence interval: ±12.228The Arena score measures human preference rather than a fixed capability test. The confidence interval and model configuration are part of the result.
Key to the marks:better valuebetter, but not conclusivetie
Our model tests
Our tests
Compare how the models respond to the same prompt. Each test shows the first attempt, with no subsequent fixes to the generated code. These results do not contribute to an overall score.
Pelican on a bicycle
A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.
Claude Sonnet 5
A community classic for free-form SVG drawing.
Reasoning (requested): high
First attempt
Run date
7 Sept 2026
API provider
openrouter
Requested API model
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
API model reported in response
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5
Reasoning setting
high
Pinned endpoint
Anthropic | anthropic/claude-sonnet-5-20260630
Temperature
Provider default
Token limit including reasoning
8,192 tokens
Test protocol
community-visual-tests-v1
Technical checks
Passed, not a quality rating
Response time
47.9 s
Visually reviewed. This individual test does not establish overall model quality.
Gemini 3.6 Flash
API access was unavailable for this run. The model was not evaluated.
Reasoning (requested): high
First attempt
Run date
7 Sept 2026
API provider
openrouter
Requested API model
google/gemini-3.6-flash
Reasoning setting
high
Pinned endpoint
Google AI Studio | google/gemini-3.6-flash-20260721
Temperature
Provider default
Token limit including reasoning
8,192 tokens
Test protocol
community-visual-tests-v1
Technical checks
Not run
Not yet visually reviewed. A successful recording does not confirm correct physics or full compliance with the prompt.
Your workload, budget, and required context length matter most. A coding benchmark says little about visual understanding or agent performance.
The standard price table uses direct developer rates. The provider comparison labels OpenRouter endpoints, regions, and special tariffs separately.
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