Gemini Pro vs GPT-5 vs Claude 4.5: The 2025 Benchmark

The AI wars are heating up. We have three titans: OpenAI's GPT-5, Google's Gemini 2.0 Pro, and Anthropic's Claude 4.5 Sonnet. Which one should you use?

1. Coding Capabilities

Test: Write a snake game in Python using PyGame with a score tracker.

• GPT-5: Flawless code. Added comments and handled edge cases (hitting walls).
• Claude 4.5: Very clean, modular code. Suggested adding a 'Pause' feature.
• Gemini Pro: Good code, but missed one import statement. Fixed it immediately when prompted.

Winner: Tie between GPT-5 and Claude.

2. Creative Writing

Test: Write a short sci-fi story about a robot who falls in love with a toaster.

• Claude 4.5: Nuanced, emotional, and surprisingly profound. Best prose.
• GPT-5: Good plot, but felt a bit formulaic.
• Gemini Pro: Very creative usage of metaphors.

Winner: Claude 4.5.

3. Context Window

• Gemini Pro: 2 Million Tokens. (Unbeatable for analyzing whole codebases/books).
• Claude: 200k Tokens.
• GPT-5: 128k Tokens.

Winner: Gemini Pro (by a mile).

Verdict

• Best for Coding: GPT-5 / Claude 4.5
• Best for Writing: Claude 4.5
• Best for Research/Large Data: Gemini Pro