Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite API pricing
Claude Haiku 5.5 is cheaper on every example workload below. Prices last checked 2026-10-15.
| Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic) | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (Google) | |
|---|---|---|
| Input $/1M tokens | $0.1 | $0.3 |
| Output $/1M tokens | $0.5 | $2.5 |
| Context | — | — |
| Our tier (1–4) | 1 | 1 |
Example monthly bills
| Workload | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chat / Q&A 10M in / 2M out per month | $2.00 | $8.00 | Claude Haiku 5.5 saves $6.00/mo (75%) |
| Coding 20M in / 5M out per month | $4.50 | $18.50 | Claude Haiku 5.5 saves $14.00/mo (76%) |
| Output-heavy (reasoning, long answers) 10M in / 10M out per month | $6.00 | $28.00 | Claude Haiku 5.5 saves $22.00/mo (79%) |
Fine print
- Claude Haiku 5.5: Prompts ≤100K tokens; prompts >100K $0.50/$2.50
Cost only, not quality. “Tier” is our rough capability judgment, not a benchmark, and different tokenizers count the same text differently. Reasoning models may bill extra thinking tokens as output. Official sources: Anthropic, Google.
See all models on the full price table, the Anthropic and Google pricing pages, or try the savings calculator with your own numbers.