Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking vs Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking vs Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview 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
Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview has lower listed token pricing, while Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.
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Overview
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking was released 1 months before Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview.
 Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking | Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview | |
|---|---|---|
Provider The entity that provides this model. | Anthropic | Google |
Input Context Window The number of tokens supported by the input context window. | 200K tokens | 1,048,576 tokens |
Maximum Output Tokens The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request. | 64000 tokens | 65,536 tokens |
Release Date When the model was first released. | Feb 24, 2025 over 1 yearago 2025-02-24 | Apr 17, 2025 over 1 year 2025-04-17 |
Leaderboard
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking | Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview | |
|---|---|---|
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
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking | Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview | |
|---|---|---|
Input Cost of input data provided to the model. | $3 per million tokens | $0.15 per million tokens |
Output Cost of output tokens generated by the model. | $15 per million tokens | $0.60 per million tokens |
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking and Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview Instruct.
| Claude 3.7 Sonnet Extended Thinking | Gemini 2.5 Flash Preview | |
|---|---|---|
MMLU Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings. | Benchmark not available. | 88.4 (5-shot) |
MMMU A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark. | 75 | 76.7 |
HellaSwag A challenging sentence completion benchmark. | Benchmark not available. | Benchmark not available. |