Which model is better: Claude 4.5 Sonnet or Gemini 2.5 Pro?
Gemini 2.5 Pro is 58.3% cheaper for input tokens ($1.25 vs. $3.00 per 1M tokens) and $10.00 vs. $15.00 for output tokens (2.4x cost advantage). In terms of operational performance, Claude 4.5 Sonnet delivers lower response latency at 380ms TTFT (320ms faster than Gemini 2.5 Pro) with 84 vs. 80 tok/s throughput. Claude 4.5 Sonnet leads coding evaluations at 75.8% SWE-bench Verified vs. 63.8% for Gemini 2.5 Pro and 84.2% vs. 74.0% on GPQA Diamond.
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Verified Performance & Unit Economics Delta (12 Dimensions)
Daily synchronized metrics across token pricing, prompt cache economics, latency, throughput, and 5 capability benchmarks.
Metric / Dimension
Claude 4.5 Sonnet
Gemini 2.5 Pro
Net Delta / Advantage
Input Cost / 1M Tokens
$3.00
$1.25
Gemini 2.5 Pro is 2.4x cheaper
Output Cost / 1M Tokens
$15.00
$10.00
Gemini 2.5 Pro (33.3% lower)
Prompt Cache Read / 1M
$0.300
$0.313
Claude 4.5 Sonnet is 1.0x cheaper
Prompt Cache Write / 1M
$3.75
$1.25
Gemini 2.5 Pro is 3.0x cheaper
Context Window (Max Output)
205k (64k out)
1,024k (66k out)
Gemini 2.5 Pro (5.0x larger context)
Avg TTFT Response Latency
380ms
700ms
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (320ms faster)
Generation Speed (Throughput)
84 tok/s
80 tok/s
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (+4 tok/s faster)
SWE-bench Verified (Coding)
75.8%
63.8%
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (+12.0% lead)
GPQA Diamond (PhD STEM)
84.2%
74%
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (+10.2% lead)
MMLU-Pro (Multi-Discipline)
90.4%
85.2%
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (+5.2% lead)
MATH-500 (Quantitative Logic)
97.5%
95%
Claude 4.5 Sonnet (+2.5% lead)
Inference Value Score (IVR)
56.5 / 100
56.8 / 100
Gemini 2.5 Pro (+0.3 pts)
Interactive Monthly Token Economics & ROI Forecaster
Model production workloads across prompt, completion, and cached context tokens, or switch models on the fly.
Choose Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google) for long-context document and video analysis, large codebase ingestion, and multimodal reasoning — offering a 1,024k context window, 700ms TTFT, and $1.25/1M input pricing ($0.312/1M cached reads).
Which is cheaper: Claude 4.5 Sonnet or Gemini 2.5 Pro?
Gemini 2.5 Pro is cheaper at $1.25/1M input tokens ($10.00/1M output) compared to $3.00/1M input ($15.00/1M output) for Claude 4.5 Sonnet.
Which model has lower TTFT latency and higher tok/s throughput: Claude 4.5 Sonnet or Gemini 2.5 Pro?
Claude 4.5 Sonnet delivers faster first-token latency at 380ms TTFT (84 tok/s throughput) compared to 700ms TTFT (80 tok/s) for Gemini 2.5 Pro.
How do Claude 4.5 Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro compare on SWE-bench coding and GPQA Diamond reasoning?
On SWE-bench Verified software engineering, Claude 4.5 Sonnet scores 75.8% versus 63.8% for Gemini 2.5 Pro. On GPQA Diamond graduate-level STEM reasoning, Claude 4.5 Sonnet scores 84.2% versus 74% for Gemini 2.5 Pro (and 97.5% vs 95% on MATH-500).
When should you choose Claude 4.5 Sonnet?
Choose Claude 4.5 Sonnet (Anthropic) for end-to-end autonomous coding agents, complex multi-file debugging, browser/GUI automation, and high-precision technical writing — offering a 204k context window, 380ms TTFT, and $3.00/1M input pricing ($0.300/1M cached reads).
When should you choose Gemini 2.5 Pro?
Choose Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google) for long-context document and video analysis, large codebase ingestion, and multimodal reasoning — offering a 1,024k context window, 700ms TTFT, and $1.25/1M input pricing ($0.312/1M cached reads).
