claude-sonnet-4-6 vs gemini-3-pro-preview
Side-by-side comparison of claude-sonnet-4-6 and gemini-3-pro-preview: benchmarks, pricing, context window and capabilities. Both are accessible through Requesty's unified API. gemini-3-pro-preview outperforms claude-sonnet-4-6 on 3 of 5 shared benchmarks.
claude-sonnet-4-6
Input / 1M
$3.00
Output / 1M
$15.00
Context
1M
Model ID
anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6
gemini-3-pro-preview
Input / 1M
$2.00
Output / 1M
$12.00
Context
1.0M
Model ID
google/gemini-3-pro-preview
Benchmark comparison
Intelligence Indexreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-638.5%
gemini-3-pro-preview32.4%
Coding Indexcoding
claude-sonnet-4-663.0%
gemini-3-pro-previewN/A
Math Indexmath
claude-sonnet-4-6N/A
gemini-3-pro-preview95.7%
GPQA Diamondreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-687.5%
gemini-3-pro-preview90.8%
AIME 2025math
claude-sonnet-4-6N/A
gemini-3-pro-preview95.7%
LiveCodeBenchcoding
claude-sonnet-4-6N/A
gemini-3-pro-preview91.7%
Terminal-Bench Hardagentic
claude-sonnet-4-653.0%
gemini-3-pro-preview41.7%
τ²-Benchagentic
claude-sonnet-4-675.7%
gemini-3-pro-preview87.1%
MMLU Proknowledge
claude-sonnet-4-6N/A
gemini-3-pro-preview89.8%
Humanity's Last Examreasoning
claude-sonnet-4-633.6%
gemini-3-pro-preview39.7%
Scores sourced from official model cards, Artificial Analysis, and public leaderboards. Benchmarks measure specific skills and don't capture every aspect of model quality.
Pricing & specifications
| claude-sonnet-4-6 | gemini-3-pro-preview | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $3.00 | $2.00 |
| Output price / 1M | $15.00 | $12.00 |
| Context window | 1M tokens | 1.0M tokens |
| Max output | 128K tokens | 66K tokens |
| Vision input | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Reasoning | Yes | Yes |
| Prompt caching | Yes | Yes |
| Computer use | Yes | N/A |
| Provider | Anthropic PBC | Google LLC (Gemini API) |
Questions people ask
Is claude-sonnet-4-6 better than gemini-3-pro-preview?
gemini-3-pro-preview outperforms claude-sonnet-4-6 on 3 of 5 shared benchmarks. See the benchmark comparison above for specifics: claude-sonnet-4-6 and gemini-3-pro-preview have different strengths across reasoning, coding, math and multimodal tasks.
Which is cheaper, claude-sonnet-4-6 or gemini-3-pro-preview?
gemini-3-pro-preview is cheaper. claude-sonnet-4-6 costs $3.00/$15.00 per 1M input/output tokens, while gemini-3-pro-preview costs $2.00/$12.00.
Can I use claude-sonnet-4-6 and gemini-3-pro-preview through the same API?
Yes. Requesty provides a single OpenAI-compatible API that routes to both. Change just the "model" parameter to switch between "anthropic/claude-sonnet-4-6" and "google/gemini-3-pro-preview", no other code changes needed.
What are the context windows?
claude-sonnet-4-6 supports up to 1M tokens of context. gemini-3-pro-preview supports up to 1.0M tokens. Longer context means you can feed larger documents or codebases in a single prompt, though quality often degrades past 128K for most models.
Switch between claude-sonnet-4-6 and gemini-3-pro-preview with one line of code
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