Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05

Side-by-side specs, pricing, and benchmarks. Pick a winner for your team's use case.

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5

Provider
anthropic
Context
1000k
Input $/Mtok
$3.00
Output $/Mtok
$15.00
Max output
64000
Modalities
text, image, file

Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05

Provider
google
Context
1049k
Input $/Mtok
$1.25
Output $/Mtok
$10.00
Max output
65536
Modalities
file, image, text, audio

Price delta

Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 is $1.75/Mtok more expensive than Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 on input. Output delta: $5.00/Mtok.

Which to pick

Pick Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.5 when you need its specific strengths (see its verdict). Pick Google: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 for lower cost per token (full verdict).

Data last verified just now.Sources aggregated hourly to weekly. See docs/architecture/model-directory.md.