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| Attribute | Claude Sonnet 5.5claude-sonnet-5.5 | Gemini 3.8 Flashgemini-3.8-flash | mai-ds-r1:freeNot in the catalogue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing | |||
| Input | $2.00 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | — |
| Output | $10.00 / 1M | $3.75 / 1M | — |
| Cache Write (5m) | $2.50 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | — |
| Cache Write (1h) | $4.00 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | — |
| Cache Read | $0.10 / 1M | $0.75 / 1M | — |
| Web Search | $0 / 1M | $0 / 1M | — |
| Context | |||
| Max context | 1M | 1M | — |
| Max output | N/A | N/A | — |
| Capabilities | |||
| Vision | Yes | Yes | — |
| Function Calling | Yes | Yes | — |
| JSON Mode | Yes | Yes | — |
| Streaming | Yes | Yes | — |
| Catalogue | |||
| Provider | Anthropic | — | |
| Category | chat | chat | — |
| Charge type | Pay As You Go | Pay As You Go | — |
| Released | — | — | — |
| Description | |||
| Summary | Claude Sonnet 5.5 is Anthropic's Sonnet-class model for well-scoped everyday work, serving as a direct upgrade to Sonnet 5. It excels at feature development, bug fixing, and creating polished documents, presentations, and spreadsheets, while offering clearer writing and communication than its predecessor. | Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash-class model, delivering significant improvements over Gemini 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic workflows, and complex multi-step reasoning. Designed to combine strong capability with Flash-tier efficiency, it is well suited for coding assistants, autonomous agents, and high-throughput production workflows that require responsive performance without sacrificing reasoning quality. | — |