Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3 Flash
Direct comparison between anthropic and google for chat models. Specs, prices, strengths, weaknesses — decide on facts.
At a glance
- · Cheaper: Gemini 3 Flash
- · Longer context window: Gemini 3 Flash at 1,000,000 tokens
- · Claude Haiku 4.5: Very cheap per million tokens — good for bulk workloads
- · Gemini 3 Flash: 1M token context at mini-tier pricing
Spec comparison
| Spec | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemini 3 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | anthropic | |
| Input per 1M tokens | $1.00 / 1M | $0.50 / 1M |
| Output per 1M tokens | $5.00 / 1M | $3.00 / 1M |
| Context window | 200,000 tok | 1,000,000 tok |
| Max output | 8,192 tok | 65,536 tok |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-07 | 2025-11 |
| Vision | ||
| Audio | ||
| Tool calling | ||
| JSON mode | ||
| Structured output |
Claude Haiku 4.5 — strengths
- +Very cheap per million tokens — good for bulk workloads
- +Low latency, comparable to Gemini 3 Flash
- +Vision-capable — rare in this price tier
Gemini 3 Flash — strengths
- +1M token context at mini-tier pricing
- +Very low latency, ideal for realtime
- +Multimodal: image, audio, and video input
Claude Haiku 4.5 — weaknesses
- −Weaker on multi-step reasoning than Sonnet
- −Only 8k output tokens — no full files in one response
Gemini 3 Flash — weaknesses
- −Code quality clearly below Sonnet 4.6 and GPT-5.4-mini
- −Complex reasoning chains fail sooner than on Pro