Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
Side-by-side pricing and context window comparison for production model selection.
Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.
Adjust the workload in the calculator below to see a live recommendation for your usage.
| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | anthropic | |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 1,048,576 |
| Max Output Tokens | 128,000 | 65,535 |
| Input Cost / 1M Tokens | $3.00 | $0.1000 |
| Output Cost / 1M Tokens | $15.00 | $0.4000 |
| Projected Monthly Cost | $1,260 | $36 |
| Vision | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Tool Calling | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Structured Output | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Reasoning | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Web Search | ❌ No | ❌ No |
| Audio Price / 1M | N/A | $0.3000 |
| Tokenizer | Claude | Gemini |
| MMLU Score | 77.2★ | 75.9 |
| GPQA | 59.9 | 62.5★ |
Price History
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 Pricing Trend
Current Input / 1M
$3.00
Current Output / 1M
$15.00
Price History
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Pricing Trend
Current Input / 1M
$0.1000
Current Output / 1M
$0.4000
Cost Calculator
Adjust your workload to see projected monthly costs.
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
$1,260
per month
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite
$36
per month
Lower costLive Recommendation
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.
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