Price comparison · checked October 12, 2026

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite pricing

For a typical support chatbot (60,000 conversations a month), Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite costs $49.50 a month and Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $180. That makes Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 3.6× cheaper for this workload.

Claude Haiku 4.5Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Input / 1M$1.00$0.25
Cached input / 1M$0.10–
Output / 1M$5.00$1.50
Context window–1M
Notes–Audio input $0.50

Monthly cost by workload

WorkloadClaude Haiku 4.5Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteDifference
Support chatbot
60,000 req · 1,500 in / 300 out
$180$49.50Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 3.6× cheaper
Document summaries
20,000 req · 6,000 in / 400 out
$160$42.00Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 3.8× cheaper
Coding assistant
30,000 req · 4,000 in / 800 out
$240$66.00Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 3.6× cheaper
RAG search
100,000 req · 2,500 in / 250 out
$375$100Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 3.8× cheaper

Standard rates, no caching or batch discounts. Sources: ai.google.dev · platform.claude.com

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1,000 tokens is about 750 English words. Input includes your system prompt, chat history and any retrieved documents.

Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
GoogleCheapest
$49.50 /mo
Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
$180 /mo

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