Claude 4.6 Sonnet vs Gemini 3 Pro
Direct spec comparison of Claude 4.6 Sonnet (from Anthropic) and Gemini 3 Pro (from Google). Want a 3- or 4-way comparison? Open the multi-model tool →
 Claude 4.6 SonnetAnthropic |  Gemini 3 Pro | |
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| Vendor | Anthropic | |
| Family | Claude | Gemini |
| Release date | 2026-02-17 | 2026-04-22 |
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens | 2,000,000 tokens |
| Parameters | — | — |
| Modality | text, vision | text, vision, audio, video |
| License | proprietary | proprietary |
| Source | proprietary | proprietary |
| Description | Anthropic's mid-tier flagship — released 12 days after Opus 4.6 and matching most of its capabilities at ~40% the API cost ($3/$15 per 1M tokens). 1M-token context. | Google DeepMind's flagship multimodal model. Best-in-class for multimodal understanding and agentic / vibe coding workflows. A "Deep Think" reasoning mode is available to AI Ultra subscribers. |
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| Benchmarks | ||
| MMLU-Pro | 85.4% | 87.1% |
| GPQA-D | 85.8% | 88.6% |
| HumanEval | 95.9% | 96.5% |
| Aider | 83.6% | 84.8% |
| AIME-25 | 87.4% | 92.8% |
| LiveCB | 73.8% | 76.1% |
| MMMU | — | 84.3% |
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