Chat Bison vs Claude 4 Sonnet: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison
Chat Bison vs Claude 4 Sonnet compares provider, context window, token pricing, benchmark performance, and release timeline in one side-by-side view. Use this page to quickly identify which model is a better fit for your production constraints, quality targets, and estimated cost per request.
Verdict
Chat Bison has lower listed token pricing, while Claude 4 Sonnet can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.
Author: Mirai Minds Research Team
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Overview
Chat Bison was released 22 months before Claude 4 Sonnet.
| Chat Bison |  Claude 4 Sonnet | |
|---|---|---|
Provider The entity that provides this model. | Google | Anthropic |
Input Context Window The number of tokens supported by the input context window. | 8,192 tokens | 200K tokens |
Maximum Output Tokens The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request. | 2,048 tokens | 64000 tokens |
Release Date When the model was first released. | Jul 10, 2023 over 1 yearago 2023-07-10 | May 22, 2025 over 1 year 2025-05-22 |
Leaderboard
| Chat Bison | Claude 4 Sonnet | |
|---|---|---|
Rank | Unknown | Unknown |
Arena Elo | Not specified. | Not specified. |
95% CI | Not specified. | Not specified. |
Votes | Not specified. | Not specified. |
License | Not specified. | Not specified. |
Knowledge Cutoff | Unknown | Unknown |
Pricing
| Chat Bison | Claude 4 Sonnet | |
|---|---|---|
Input Cost of input data provided to the model. | $0.25 per million tokens | $3 per million tokens |
Output Cost of output tokens generated by the model. | $0.50 per million tokens | $15 per million tokens |
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Chat Bison and Claude 4 Sonnet Instruct.
| Chat Bison | Claude 4 Sonnet | |
|---|---|---|
MMLU Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings. | 78.3 (5-shot) | Benchmark not available. |
MMMU A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark. | Benchmark not available. | 74.4 |
HellaSwag A challenging sentence completion benchmark. | Benchmark not available. | Benchmark not available. |