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Claude Sonnet 5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro

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Language Models · verified 13 Aug 2026

Claude Sonnet 5Anthropiccurrent
Gemini 3.1 ProGooglecurrent
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SpecificationClaude Sonnet 5Gemini 3.1 Pro
SummaryNear-Opus quality on coding and agentic work at Sonnet cost.Best for very large multimodal context.
Context1M1M
Input ($/Mtok)$3
Output ($/Mtok)$15
LicenceProprietaryProprietary
Max output128K
Model IDclaude-sonnet-5
CategoryLanguage ModelsLanguage Models
OfficialAnthropicGoogle

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Claude Sonnet 5

  • Adaptive thinking on by default
  • New tokenizer — roughly 30% more tokens for the same text
  • Introductory $2/$10 through 31 Aug 2026

Best for high-volume production.

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Gemini 3.1 Pro

  • Reads an hour of video in one pass
  • Strongest multimodal grounding

Best for long documents.

Full spec sheet →