Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet vs Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Compare Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet by Anthropic against Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 by Google AI, in 2 community votes, gemini 2.5 pro preview 06-05 wins 100% of head-to-head duels, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 44 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet or Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05?
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 is the better choice overall, winning 100% of 2 blind community votes on Rival. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet costs $6/M input tokens vs $1.25/M for Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05. Context windows: 200K vs 1049K tokens. Compare their real outputs side by side below.
Key Differences Between Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet is made by anthropic while Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 is from google. Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet has a 200K token context window compared to Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05's 1049K. On pricing, Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet costs $6/M input tokens vs $1.25/M for Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05. In community voting, In 2 community votes, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 wins 100% of head-to-head duels.
In 2 community votes, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 wins 100% of head-to-head duels. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 2+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 is cheaper on both — 4.8× input, 3.0× output
Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05. In 2 blind votes, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 wins 100% of the time. That's not luck.
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 is 3.0x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Style Comparison
Claude 3.7 Thinking Sonnet uses 4.1x more transitions
