Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Gemini 4 Argon

A direct, empirical evaluation of Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic) against Gemini 4 Argon (Google DeepMind).

Claude Sonnet 5.5

Developed by Anthropic · Proprietary Frontier Dynamic Hybrid Reasoner parameters

Terminal-Bench 4.0 execution (70.6%), SWE-bench Verified coding (82.4%), GitHub Copilot multi-file edits, and low-latency autonomous agentic coding at $2/$10 pricing.

Gemini 4 Argon

Developed by Google DeepMind · Frontier Coding & Security Engine on TPU v6e Ironclad parameters

Automated GitHub issue resolution (78.4% SWE-bench Verified), cybersecurity exploit auditing (91.4% CyberSecBench), 2M token context buffer, and aggressive $1.20/$4.80 API pricing.

Metric Claude Sonnet 5.5 Gemini 4 Argon
SWE-bench Verified 82.4% 78.4%
MMLU-Pro 88.4% 93.6%
MATH-500 95.2% 97.6%
Context Window 1,000,000 tokens 2,000,000 tokens
Input Pricing (per 1M) $2.00 $1.20
Output Pricing (per 1M) $10.00 $4.80