Claude 3.7 Sonnet vs Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition)
Compare Claude 3.7 Sonnet by Anthropic against Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) by Google AI, in 52 community votes, gemini 2.5 pro (i/o edition) wins 81% of head-to-head duels, tested across 41 shared challenges. Updated May 2026.
Which is better, Claude 3.7 Sonnet or Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition)?
Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) is the better choice overall, winning 81% of 52 blind community votes on Rival. Claude 3.7 Sonnet costs $3/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 Sonnet and Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition)
Claude 3.7 Sonnet is made by anthropic while Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) is from google. On pricing, Claude 3.7 Sonnet costs $3/M input tokens vs $1.25/M for Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition). In community voting, In 52 community votes, Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) wins 81% of head-to-head duels.
In 52 community votes, Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) wins 81% of head-to-head duels. Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) leads in Image Generation, Reasoning, Conversation. Based on blind community voting from the Rival open dataset of 52+ human preference judgments for this pair.
Per 1M tokens
Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) is cheaper on both — 2.4× input, 1.5× output
Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition). In 52 blind votes, Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) wins 81% of the time. That's not luck.
Gemini 2.5 Pro (I/O Edition) particularly excels in Image Generation, Reasoning, Analysis.
Style Comparison
Claude 3.7 Sonnet uses 19.0x more transitions
