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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite

Compare Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite (Google) by price, context, capabilities, and latency.

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Gemini Flash prices rise Jan 1, 2027

Per Google's published pricing page, Gemini Flash input prices double on Jan 1, 2027. The same workload runs an order of magnitude cheaper on DeepSeek and GLM. Source: Google pricing Full price breakdown

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Which should you pick?

  • Price: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is cheaper ($0.25 / 1M tokens input / $1.50 / 1M tokens output) vs Claude Haiku 4.5 ($1 / 1M tokens input / $5 / 1M tokens output).
  • Context: Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite has the larger context window (1M tokens).

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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite — full comparison

Compare price, provider, context, capabilities, latency, and source basis.

ModelProviderInputOutputContextCapabilitiesBest forLatencyStatusSource
Claude Haiku 4.5anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5Anthropic$1 / 1M tokens$5 / 1M tokens200k
StreamingTool callingJSON modeVision
image understanding, multimodal chat1327-2183msCatalogPlatform curated
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Litegoogle/gemini-3.1-flash-liteGoogle$0.25 / 1M tokens$1.50 / 1M tokens1M
StreamingTool callingJSON modeVision
image understanding, multimodal chat936-1952msCatalogPlatform curated

FAQ

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite FAQ

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite cheaper?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is cheaper ($0.25 / 1M tokens input / $1.50 / 1M tokens output) vs Claude Haiku 4.5 ($1 / 1M tokens input / $5 / 1M tokens output). Actual cost depends on your input/output token mix — estimate it with the pricing calculator.

Which has a larger context window, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite?

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite is larger (1M tokens) vs 200k tokens.

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for Vision: which should I pick?

Both target Vision. Pick Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite to optimize cost, or Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite for the longer context window. Test both on real prompts before committing production traffic.

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