# Gemini 3.5 Flash vs Claude Sonnet 5

On provider list prices, Gemini 3.5 Flash costs $1.50 per million input tokens against $3 for Claude Sonnet 5: 2.0x apart. Output is $9 against $15 (1.7x).

## Specifications

| | Gemini 3.5 Flash | Claude Sonnet 5 |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lab | Google | Anthropic |
| Access | API only | API only |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1M tokens |
| List price, input | $1.50 / M tokens | $3 / M tokens |
| List price, output | $9 / M tokens | $15 / M tokens |
| Cached input | n/a | n/a |
| License | Proprietary API | Proprietary API |
| Fine-tunable | No | No |

Specifications and provider list prices from the Allocate catalog, checked 2026-07-21.

## What the numbers say

Take 1,000,000 requests a month at 1,200 input and 350 output tokens each. That workload costs $4,950 a month on Gemini 3.5 Flash and $8,850 on Claude Sonnet 5 at list: a gap of $3,900, or 1.8x.

## Choose Gemini 3.5 Flash for

- High-volume support and triage
- Document extraction at scale
- Vision and OCR pipelines

## Choose Claude Sonnet 5 for

- Judgment calls with policy context
- Customer-facing writing
- Review and escalation flows

## Common questions

### Which is cheaper, Gemini 3.5 Flash or Claude Sonnet 5?

Gemini 3.5 Flash, on this workload shape. At list prices it is $1.50/$9 per million tokens in and out against $3/$15 for Claude Sonnet 5. Billed on Allocate: $1.60/$9.63 against $3.21/$16.05.

### Which has the bigger context window?

They match: both read 1,000,000 tokens (1M) per request.

### Can I fine-tune Gemini 3.5 Flash or Claude Sonnet 5?

No. Both are closed models served over API. If you want a model you can train and own, start from an open-weights base in the catalog.

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