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Claude Haiku 4.5

VS
Google

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

✍️ Analysis by:the whichllmmodel Editorial Team|📅 Updated: June 2026

Decision Recommendation

⚖️ Editorial Verdict: In our analysis, Claude Haiku 4.5 is the premium intelligence choice, scoring 39.5% higher on coding benchmarks. However, this accuracy premium comes with a cost overhead: Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is 11.4x cheaper to run and delivers 2.8x faster throughput. If you are building high-volume, simple chatbots or processing massive amounts of text where budget is critical, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite offers excellent cost savings. For agentic reasoning, code refactoring, or complex logical tasks, the accuracy premium of Claude Haiku 4.5 fully justifies the cost.

Model Specs

Claude Haiku 4.5

Benchmarks & Scores

Coding (swe-bench-pro)Winner (+)
39.5%
Reasoning (gpqa-diamond)Winner (+10.5%)
73%

Cost & Performance

Cost (per 1M tokens)
$2.00Input: $1.00 | Output: $5.00
Speed
98.5 tps
Context Window
200k tokens
Model Specs

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Benchmarks & Scores

Coding (swe-bench-pro)
N/A
Reasoning (gpqa-diamond)
62.5%

Cost & Performance

Cost (per 1M tokens)11.4x cheaper
$0.17Input: $0.10 | Output: $0.40
Speed2.8x faster
280 tps
Context WindowLarger
1M tokens
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Frequently Asked Questions

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite has a blended cost of $0.17/1M tokens, which is about 11.4x cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 at $2.00/1M tokens.

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is faster than Claude Haiku 4.5. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite generates 280 tokens per second (tps) compared to Claude Haiku 4.5 which generates 98.5 tokens per second.

Claude Haiku 4.5 is better for coding tasks. It scores 39.5% on coding evaluations (swe-bench-pro) compared to Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite which scores N/A.

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