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🔥Claude Sonnet 4 vs. Gemini 2.5 Pro Coding Comparison ✅

Shrijal Acharya on June 11, 2025

You'll find many AI model comparison articles that mainly test the models on a few selected questions, but not many articles show how the models re...
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Shekhar Rajput

I recently read it somewhere, that Antropic now claims that they don't really know how AI works nowadays. Imagine a company that big doing this claim.

But, even with that, when it comes to AI in general, I prefer Anthropic models than this cheap Google and Sam's one.

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Shekhar Rajput

Overall, based on your observation, which one do you pick for coding? Keep pricing apart.

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Claude Sonnet 4 would be it.

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Gemini 2.5 is not something you can simply ignore. But, I agree Anthropic is just too goated for AI models. 💥

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Folks, let me know your thoughts on this comparison. Do you prefer real-world coding tests or smaller ones?

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Lara Stewart - DevOps Cloud Engineer

I prefer this method. This is how it should be done to test how they perform in the real world. It's a good read. 🤍

Have you had a chance to check out my recent post on starting with DevOps?

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Great read, @larastewart_engdev ✌️

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Firuza Chess • Edited

Anthropic’s Claude Sonnet 4 is a refined continuation of the Sonnet lineage—tuned for strong general capabilities, consistent coding, and nuanced reasoning—while remaining cost-effective and available on free tiers (theverge.com). It features the same “thinking summaries” and hybrid “extended thinking” mode introduced in Claude Opus 4, and Anthropic claims that it is about 65 % less prone to shortcutting and better at retaining long-term context (theverge.com). Meanwhile, Gemini 2.5 Pro represents Google DeepMind’s latest major leap, offering a mammoth 1 million‑token context window, a new “Deep Think” reasoning mode, and standout benchmark performance—especially in multi-step reasoning, math, science, and coding (tomsguide.com). Side‑by‑side user reports echo this: many note Gemini outperforms Claude on big coding tasks, thanks to its deep context and precision—but some still prefer Claude for cleaner reasoning trails or narrative flexibility (reddit.com).

In summary, Claude 4 Sonnet is a smart, reliable, and relatively lightweight companion—great for generalist use and precise reasoning—while Gemini 2.5 Pro pushes the envelope on context capacity, reasoning depth, and technical tasks, though occasionally at the cost of verbosity or over‑extension. Choosing between them depends on whether you prioritize nimble, instruction‑following consistency (Claude) or heavyweight reasoning and tool‑capable prowess (Gemini).

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Thanks!

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Aayush Pokharel

Nice one, sathi! ❤️

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Thanks!

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Aavash Parajuli

Good comparison. Always a nice read for model comparisons from you. Shrijal 💯

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Shrijal Acharya Composio

Thanks! 🙌

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Mitesh MOHAN GHATNEKAR

This is a wonderful article