Compare Claude Sonnet 5 from Anthropic and Gemini 3.6 Flash from Google on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.
Claude Sonnet 5
Gemini 3.6 FlashClaude Sonnet 5 is the next generation of Anthropic's Sonnet model family. It is a drop-in upgrade for Claude Sonnet 4.6 with three behavior changes: adaptive thinking is on by default, manual extended thinking now returns a 400 error (it was deprecated on Claude Sonnet 4.6), and setting sampling parameters (temperature, top_p, top_k) to non-default values returns a 400 error
Gemini 3.6 Flash provides sustained frontier-level intelligence optimized for real-world tasks at a higher speed and lower cost. Designed for the agentic era, it excels at code generation, agentic execution, and spatial reasoning. This model is particularly effective for rapid agentic loops involving complex coding cycles and iterations.
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Gemini 3.6 Flash: $3.75/M output tokens; Claude Sonnet 5: $10/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.
Claude Sonnet 5: 1520; Gemini 3.6 Flash: 1518 (LMArena coding leaderboard).
Claude Sonnet 5: 0.8s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.
Claude Sonnet 5 accepts 1,000,000 and Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts 1,048,576 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 128,000 tokens on Claude Sonnet 5 and 65,536 tokens on Gemini 3.6 Flash.
Claude Sonnet 5 at 7839.1 tok/s and Gemini 3.6 Flash at 168.2 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.
Claude Sonnet 5 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Gemini 3.6 Flash accepts text, image, video, audio and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling, structured outputs, web search and long context.
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