Compare / Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025
Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025
17 results from 3 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.
| Benchmark | Metric | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | gemini-2.5-flash-preview-09-2025 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | OverallArena rating | 1,461 | 1,425 |
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | Business, management and financeArena rating | 1,482 | 1,403 |
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | Creative writingArena rating | 1,449 | 1,380 |
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | Expert promptsArena rating | 1,506 | 1,432 |
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | Instruction followingArena rating | 1,475 | 1,400 |
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | OverallArena rating | 1,472 | 1,403 |
| Arena (formerly LMArena)reported | Writing, literature and languageArena rating | 1,455 | 1,394 |
| Artificial Analysisreported | Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score | 30.1 | 15.5 |
| Artificial Analysisreported | GPQA Diamond% of questions | 87.5% | 79.3% |
| Artificial Analysisreported | Humanity's Last Exam% of questions | 33.6% | 13.8% |
| Artificial Analysisreported | IFBench% of instructions | 56.6% | 52.3% |
| Artificial Analysisreported | Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions | 80.0% | 71.0% |
| Artificial Analysisreported | Terminal-Bench Hard% of tasks | 53.0% | 16.7% |
| Artificial Analysisreported | Τ²-bench telecom% of tasks | 79.5% | 45.6% |
| UGI Leaderboardreported | Requested-length error% off the requested word count | 2.0% | 20.0% |
| UGI Leaderboardreported | Style adherencescore from 0 to 1 | 0.41 | 0.34 |
| UGI Leaderboardreported | Writing scorescore out of 100 | 64.5 | 44.9 |
Bold green marks the better value on that metric. Where a source reports ranges that overlap, the difference may not be meaningful; see the benchmark page for ranges.