# Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-sonnet-5-5-vs-gemini-3-1-pro
- Last updated: September 28, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.7

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 has the lower published output-token price.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 3.1 Pro |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Google |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 1M | 1M |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 80.49 | 64.46 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 47 | 28 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $2.00 / $10.00 | $2.00 / $12.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 66.1 (Supported · #10/111)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro public-lane score: 40.3 (Supported · #51/111)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 4.0 | 70.60% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | 64.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DRACO | 87.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench-Science 0.1 | 59.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Harvey held-out) | 10.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Harvey held-out) | 93.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass@3 | 85.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass³ | 68.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified avg. turns | 31.6 turns | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench (Zapier 1.0.6) | 44.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | 77.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 57.8% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 69.7% | Coming soon |
| τ²-bench results | Coming soon | 95.6% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 56.87% | Coming soon |
| ResearchClawBench | Coming soon | 13.3% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 70.8% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 79.6 (Estimated · #3/136)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro public-lane score: 42.3 (Supported · #52/136)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | 46.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| cursorBench40 | 55.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | 81.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | 90.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE Multimodal | 54.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DeepSWE | 71.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | 59.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | 79.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | 61.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench Pro | Coming soon | 82.9% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 78.9% | Coming soon |
| Vibe Code Bench | Coming soon | 32.03% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 88.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 78.8% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 79.2 (#7/27)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro public-lane score: 54.5 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 77.1% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | Coming soon | 0.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 83.3 (Unranked · 7 rankable rows)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro public-lane score: 80.1 (#13/50)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Chartography (no tools) | 61.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Chartography (tools) | 90.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (no tools) | 0.747 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools) | 0.963 | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Biomedical image analysis | 72.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA | 76.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | 65.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMMU-Pro | Coming soon | 83.9% | Coming soon |
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 80.2% | Coming soon |
| ERQA | Coming soon | 69.4% | Coming soon |
| SimpleVQA | Coming soon | 72.4% | Coming soon |
| ScreenSpot Pro | Coming soon | 84.4% | Coming soon |
| ZeroBench | Coming soon | 29.0% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (MM) | Coming soon | 81.3% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: 80.9 (Supported · #6/160)
- Gemini 3.1 Pro public-lane score: 66.5 (Supported · #20/160)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HealthBench (raw) | 69.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (length-adjusted) | 65.4% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional (raw) | 77.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | 69.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-solvable) | 89.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-difficult) | 44.7% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SpatialBench Verified | 72.5% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SingleCellBench | 59.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protein Design | 51.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Morphology-to-molecule matching | 25.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Medicinal chemistry | 65.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protein Design library ranking | 54.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| De novo protein-binder design | 82.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (troubleshooting) | 67.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Protocols (understanding) | 66.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | 56.9% | 45.4% | Claude Sonnet 5.5 |
| GPQA-D | Coming soon | 94.3% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Hard | Coming soon | 20.6% | Coming soon |
| MedXpertQA (Text) | Coming soon | 71.5% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 95.5% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 91.0% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.1 Pro public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GMMLU | 92.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MILU | 91.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Sonnet 5.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Gemini 3.1 Pro public-lane score: 54.2 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Sonnet 5.5 | Gemini 3.1 Pro | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ArXivMath Aug. 2026 (no tools) | 86.8% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Aug. 2026 (tools) | 95.2% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 36.900% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 16.700% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Claude Sonnet 5.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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