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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.6 Flash

List-price comparison ·Claude Haiku 4.5 details ·Gemini 3.6 Flash details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Claude Haiku 4.5 is the cheapest — 33% less than the priciest here ($320.00/mo vs $480.00/mo).

 Claude Haiku 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
Input / 1M tokens$1.00$1.50
Output / 1M tokens$5.00$7.50
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0032$0.0048
Context window200k tokens1,048,576 tokens
Max output64k tokens65,536 tokens
Quality score70/10074/100
TierFlashFlash
ProviderAnthropicGoogle

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Haiku 4.5Gemini 3.6 Flash
1,000$3.20$4.80
10,000$32.00$48.00
100,000$320.00$480.00
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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.

Gemini 3.6 Flash

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