Price comparison · checked October 12, 2026

Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite pricing

For a typical support chatbot (60,000 conversations a month), Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $18.00 a month and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite costs $49.50. That makes Claude Haiku 5.5 2.8× cheaper for this workload.

Claude Haiku 5.5Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
ProviderAnthropicGoogle
Input / 1M$0.10$0.25
Cached input / 1M$0.010–
Output / 1M$0.50$1.50
Context window1M1M
Notes5× price for prompts over 100K tokensAudio input $0.50

Monthly cost by workload

WorkloadClaude Haiku 5.5Gemini 3.1 Flash-LiteDifference
Support chatbot
60,000 req · 1,500 in / 300 out
$18.00$49.50Claude Haiku 5.5 2.8× cheaper
Document summaries
20,000 req · 6,000 in / 400 out
$16.00$42.00Claude Haiku 5.5 2.6× cheaper
Coding assistant
30,000 req · 4,000 in / 800 out
$24.00$66.00Claude Haiku 5.5 2.8× cheaper
RAG search
100,000 req · 2,500 in / 250 out
$37.50$100Claude Haiku 5.5 2.7× 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.

Claude Haiku 5.5
AnthropicCheapest
$18.00 /mo
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Google
$49.50 /mo

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