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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

List-price comparison ·Claude Haiku 4.5 details ·Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image) is the cheapest — 72% less than the priciest here ($90.00/mo vs $320.00/mo).

 Claude Haiku 4.5Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
Input / 1M tokens$1.00$0.250
Output / 1M tokens$5.00$1.50
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0032$0.0009
Context window200k tokens65,536 tokens
Max output64k tokens66k tokens
Quality score70/10058/100
TierFlashFlash
ProviderAnthropicGoogle

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Haiku 4.5Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)
1,000$3.20$0.9
10,000$32.00$9.00
100,000$320.00$90.00
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Claude Haiku 4.5

Very low latency for high-volume, simple tasks — classification, short summaries, and lightweight chat where response time matters more than depth.

Noticeably weaker on multi-step reasoning and long-context synthesis; pairing with a larger model for escalation is common.

Nano Banana 2 Lite (Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Image)

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