Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

API pricing, benchmark indices and specs — updated 19 October 2026.

anthropic · A · API-only
Input / 1M
$1.00
Output / 1M
$5.00
AA index
16.9
proprietary · 200K context
google · B · API-only
Input / 1M
$0.25
Output / 1M
$1.50
AA index
15.6
proprietary · 1M context

Specification comparison

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Specification Claude Haiku 4.5 Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Deployment API-only (closed weights) API-only (closed weights)
Parameters n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
Architecture n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
Context length 200,000 1,048,576
Licence Proprietary Proprietary
Commercial use Per API terms Per API terms
Languages n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
Downloads 30d n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
Downloads all time n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
Quantizations on the Hub n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
Gated n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
First seen on the Hub n/a — API-only n/a — API-only
API input price / 1M tokens $1.00 $0.25
API output price / 1M tokens $5.00 $1.50
Est. cost per 1M input + 1M output tokens $6.00 $1.75
Cached input / 1M tokens $0.10 $0.025
AA Intelligence Index 16.9 15.6
AA Coding Index 43.9 34.7
AA Agentic Index 8 1.6
Max output tokens 64,000 65,536
API providers 4 1
Tool calling Yes Yes
Reasoning mode Yes Yes

API cost

Estimated cost of 1M input + 1M output tokens via OpenRouter

Claude Haiku 4.5 $6.00
Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview $1.75

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is 3.4× cheaper at list price.

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