Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 2.5 Flash

Side-by-side specs, pricing, and benchmarks. Pick a winner for your team's use case.

Use it in a Space

Spin up a Switchy Space with either model — your whole team @-mentions it with shared context, pooled credits, one memory.

Pricing
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5Gemini 2.5 Flash
Input $/Mtok$1.00 · $0.15
Output $/Mtok$5.00 · $0.60
Context window
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5Gemini 2.5 Flash
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5200K tokens
Gemini 2.5 Flash1049K tokens

Bars use square-root scaling so a 1M-token window doesn't crush a 200K one.

Release timeline
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5Gemini 2.5 Flash
2025-10-15
2025-09-15today

Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5

Provider
anthropic
Context
200k
Input $/Mtok
$1.00
Output $/Mtok
$5.00
Max output
64000
Modalities
image, text

Gemini 2.5 Flash

Provider
google
Context
1049k
Input $/Mtok
$0.15
Output $/Mtok
$0.60
Max output
65536
Modalities
text, image, video, audio

Price delta

Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 is $0.85/Mtok more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Flash on input. Output: Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 is $4.40/Mtok more expensive than Gemini 2.5 Flash.

Which to pick

Pick **Claude Haiku 4.5** when you want Anthropic's tone, refusal behaviour, and tool-use shape across a team that already runs Sonnet and Opus. The 200k context fits most chat patterns and the $0.80 in / $4 out per Mtok pricing is competitive on output even if Gemini Flash undercuts it on input. Pick **Gemini 2.5 Flash** for very high-volume or long-context bulk work — extracting from huge corpora, batch summarisation, classification at the pennies-per-Mtok end of the market. At $0.15 in / $0.60 out per Mtok plus a 1M-token window, it's roughly 5x cheaper on input and 5x larger context than Haiku, which is the whole reason to prefer it.
Data last verified 1 hour ago.Sources aggregated hourly to weekly. See docs/architecture/model-directory.md.