Head-to-head comparison across 2benchmark categories. Overall scores shown here use BenchLM's provisional ranking lane.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
42
Gemini 2.5 Pro
67
Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3.5 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Coding
+14.8 difference
Knowledge
+18.6 difference
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Gemini 2.5 Pro
$null / $null
$1.25 / $5
N/A
117 t/s
N/A
21.19s
200K
1M
Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3.5 Sonnet only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is clearly ahead on the provisional aggregate, 67 to 42. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.
Gemini 2.5 Pro's sharpest advantage is in coding, where it averages 63.8 against 49. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 59.4% to 83%. Claude 3.5 Sonnet does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.
Gemini 2.5 Pro gives you the larger context window at 1M, compared with 200K for Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
Gemini 2.5 Pro is ahead on BenchLM's provisional leaderboard, 67 to 42. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 59.4% and 83%.
Claude 3.5 Sonnet has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 59.4 versus 40.8. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
Gemini 2.5 Pro has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 63.8 versus 49. Inside this category, SWE-bench Verified is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.
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