Comparing 2 models

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Gemini 3.7 Flash

Benchmarks through

Verdict

Gemini 3.7 Flash places higher on 2 of the 2 tasks where both are ranked. Gemini 3.7 Flash costs 2.7x less per input token. Gemini 3.7 Flash accepts 1.0x more context.

  • Choose Gemini 3.7 Flash for Vision & Documents (#2), Charts & Diagrams (#4).

Built from the published task rankings below; ranks come from each task's own weighted benchmarks, so a win on one task says nothing about another.

metric
Model 1Claude Sonnet 5.5
Model 2Gemini 3.7 Flash
Best for
Code Completion (#1)
Business Writing (#2)
Provider
anthropic
google
Context
1M
1.0MBest
Input / 1M
$2
$0.75Best
Output / 1M
$10
$3.75Best
Tool use
yesBest
yesBest
Vision
yesBest
yesBest
Reasoning
yesBest
yesBest
Open-weight
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Released
Sep 26, 2026
Aug 13, 2026

Measured head to head

Benchmarks both models were run on

EvaluationClaude Sonnet 5.5Gemini 3.7 FlashSource
Design Arena Coding1366 Elo1311 Elosource · 2026-10-16
Design Arena UI1378 Elo1301 Elosource · 2026-10-16
Design Arena Website1330 Elo1306 Elosource · 2026-10-16
FrontierMath Tiers 1-3 (Epoch AI)88.8% ± 1.971.6% ± 2.7source · 2026-09-29
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI)95.6% ± 1.494.8% ± 1.3source · 2026-09-29
LiveBench Agentic Coding56.3%58.3%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Coding91.4%78.9%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Data Analysis59.5%68.0%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Instruction Following56.8%79.9%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Language78.0%85.5%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Math96.1%93.5%source · 2026-10-16
LiveBench Reasoning91.6%87.8%source · 2026-10-16
LMArena Agent12.5-0.4source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Bash Recovery15-5.4source · 2026-10-08
LMArena Agent Steerability12.3-3.2source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Task Outcome20-0.8source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Agent Tool Hallucination0.50.4source · 2026-10-14
LMArena Creative Writing1467 Elo1489 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Instruction Following1488 Elo1484 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Long Query1494 Elo1492 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Math1499 Elo1510 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text1475 Elo1488 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Text Factuality1474 Elo1475 Elosource · 2026-10-15
LMArena Vision1266 Elo1297 Elosource · 2026-10-09
LMArena Vision Diagrams1320 Elo1321 Elosource · 2026-10-09
LMArena Vision OCR1280 Elo1311 Elosource · 2026-10-09
LMArena WebDev1774 Elo1590 Elosource · 2026-10-13
LMArena WebDev Image-to-Web1740 Elo1603 Elosource · 2026-10-09
OTIS Mock AIME (Epoch AI)100% ± 097.2% ± 1.9source · 2026-09-29
SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI)46.5% ± 1.669.2% ± 1.5source · 2026-09-29
Terminal-Bench (4.0)61.8%11.2%source · 2026-10-16

Values are as published by each evaluator, in its own units; rows from different evaluators are not on a common scale.

task evidence

How they place when the question changes

Lower ranks are better. “Best” marks the strongest option in this shortlist for that task.