Compare / Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs gemini-3-flash

Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs gemini-3-flash

23 results from 3 sources that measured both models. Each row is in the source's own units; there is no overall winner.

Claude Sonnet 4.6
Anthropic · profile
gemini-3-flash
Google · profile
Results compared
23
Shared sources
3
BenchmarkMetricClaude Sonnet 4.6gemini-3-flash
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4781,439
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,2011,191
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4611,468
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedBusiness, management and financeArena rating 1,4821,469
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedCreative writingArena rating 1,4491,457
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedExpert promptsArena rating 1,5061,496
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedInstruction followingArena rating 1,4751,458
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedOverallArena rating 1,4721,473
Arena (formerly LMArena)reportedWriting, literature and languageArena rating 1,4551,461
Artificial AnalysisreportedArtificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score 30.126.3
Artificial AnalysisreportedGPQA Diamond% of questions 87.5%89.8%
Artificial AnalysisreportedHumanity's Last Exam% of questions 33.6%36.6%
Artificial AnalysisreportedIFBench% of instructions 56.6%78.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedLong-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions 80.0%78.0%
Artificial AnalysisreportedTerminal-Bench Hard% of tasks 53.0%38.6%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ-bench banking% of tasks 34.4%20.8%
Artificial AnalysisreportedΤ²-bench telecom% of tasks 79.5%80.4%
OpenHands IndexreportedAverage% resolved 44.5%49.0%
OpenHands IndexreportedFront end (SWE-Bench Multimodal)% resolved 30.9%22.1%
OpenHands IndexreportedGreenfield (Commit0)% resolved 50.0%18.8%
OpenHands IndexreportedInformation gathering (GAIA)% resolved 13.3%58.8%
OpenHands IndexreportedIssue resolution (SWE-Bench)% resolved 74.4%74.6%
OpenHands IndexreportedTesting (SWT-Bench)% resolved 54.0%70.7%

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.