Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen
Gemini 4 Hydrogen: 87.3% average across five Vision Evals tasks (#3 of 69 models). We have not run Claude Sonnet 4.6 through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score. Run both on your own image below.
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Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen Comparison Table
Evals updated November 12, 2026Pricing updated November 13, 2026
| Property | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Gemini 4 Hydrogen |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Feb 2026 | Nov 2026 |
| Context Window | 1.0M | 1.0M |
| Parameters | Unknown | Unknown |
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | commercial use per vendor terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $3.00 | No published price |
| Output $/1M | $15.00 | No published price |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Chart Question Answering | Supported | Not listed |
| Document Question Answering | Supported | Not listed |
| Image Tagging | Supported | Not listed |
| Multi-Label Classification | Supported | Not listed |
| Promptable Concept Segmentation | Not listed | Demo |
Both support 6 more tasks | ||
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks, pooled at low effort | ||
| Overall | Not evaluated | 87.3% |
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.0094 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 13.23s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection (low) | – | 81.0% ±0.8, Mean of 3 runs, range 80.3 to 81.9 |
| Object Detection (high) | – | 83.3% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.4 to 83.8 |
| Counting (low) | – | 83.8% ±2.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.4 to 86.5 |
| Counting (high) | – | 84.2% ±2.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 82.4 to 87.8 |
| Identification (low) | – | 96.9% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9 |
| Identification (high) | – | 96.9% ±0.0, Mean of 3 runs, range 96.9 to 96.9 |
| OCR (low) | – | 86.7% |
| by category |
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| OCR (high) | – | 87.2% |
| by category |
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| Reasoning (low) | – | 88.1% ±0.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 87.4 to 88.7 |
| Reasoning (high) | – | 91.8% ±0.3, Mean of 3 runs, range 91.4 to 92.0 |
Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Gemini 4 Hydrogen: Overview
Claude Sonnet 4.6 is Anthropic's mid-tier large language model, released February 17, 2026, designed to balance performance, cost, and versatility for professional and developer use. It supports text and vision-based tasks with advanced reasoning, agentic capabilities, and Adaptive Thinking — a mode where the model dynamically scales its internal reasoning depth. A beta context window of up to 1,000,000 tokens (200K standard) enables processing of entire codebases or document collections in a single request. Parameters are undisclosed.
Optimized for coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, and knowledge work, Sonnet 4.6 delivers a full generational upgrade over Sonnet 4.5 and approaches Opus 4.5-level performance across many benchmarks at a fraction of the cost. It is the default model on Claude.ai, Claude Cowork, and is available via API and major cloud platforms — making it well suited for production workloads requiring strong reasoning without flagship pricing.
Gemini 4 Hydrogen is a multimodal model from Google, positioned as a successor to Gemini 3.8 Flash with stronger agent and coding capabilities at Flash-class speed.