Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet vs Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition)
Compare Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet by Anthropic against Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) by Google AI, in 33 community votes, claude 3.7 thinking sonnet wins 90% of head-to-head duels, tested across 41 shared challenges. Updated April 2026.
Which is better, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet or Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition)?
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet is the better choice overall, winning 90% of 33 blind community votes on Rival. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet costs $6/M input tokens vs $1.25/M for Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition). Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition)
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet is made by anthropic while Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) is from google. On pricing, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet costs $6/M input tokens vs $1.25/M for Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition). In community voting, In 33 community votes, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet wins 90% of head-to-head duels.
In 33 community votes, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet wins 90% of head-to-head duels. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet leads in Web Design, Reasoning. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 33+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Pick Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet. In 33 blind votes, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet wins 90% of the time. That's not luck.
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet particularly excels in Web Design, Reasoning. Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) is 3.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
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Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet uses 17.7x more transitions
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