# Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Gemini 3 Pro

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads Gemini 3 Pro in 0 of 5 shared categories.

Claude Sonnet 4.5: $6 per 1M blended tokens.

Gemini 3 Pro: price per 1M tokens is unset in the catalog.

Claude Sonnet 4.5: closed weights.

Gemini 3 Pro: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3 Pro leads Claude Sonnet 4.5 in General LLM at #16 against #62.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3 Pro leads Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Reasoning at #23 against #51.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3 Pro leads Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Coding › Web dev at #65 against #86.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3 Pro leads Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Long context at #24 against #34.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3 Pro leads Claude Sonnet 4.5 in Factuality at #10 against #61.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is a former state-of-the-art holder in General LLM (since Oct 3, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Gemini 3 Pro is a former state-of-the-art holder in General LLM (since Nov 17, 2025; sources LMArena Text (style-controlled, overall); methodology v1.0).