Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro
Pricing & Specs

Anthropic vs Google (Gemini), side by side from a live registry. Specs below, then benchmark both on your own task.

$5
Claude Haiku 4.5 output / 1M
$12
Gemini 3.1 Pro output / 1M
200K / 1.04858M
context windows

TL;DR: On a typical task (1K input + 500 output tokens), Claude Haiku 4.5 is about 2.3x cheaper than Gemini 3.1 Pro. But per-token price is not cost per result: a cheaper model that needs more tokens, retries, or hand-holding can end up more expensive on your workload. The specs below are facts; which one is better at YOUR task is measurable, not guessable.

API Pricing: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Pro

TokensClaude Haiku 4.5Gemini 3.1 Pro
Input$1 / 1M$2 / 1M
Output$5 / 1M$12 / 1M
Cached input$0.1 / 1M$0.2 / 1M

What that means in practice (1K input + 500 output tokens)

1x One typical task: $0.0035 on Claude Haiku 4.5 vs $0.0080 on Gemini 3.1 Pro
1K 1,000 runs: $3.50 vs $8.00
💡 Real cost depends on how verbose each model is on YOUR prompts. Benchmark to measure actual tokens, not estimates.

Specs Compared

SpecClaude Haiku 4.5Gemini 3.1 Pro
Context window200K tokens1.04858M tokens
Max output tokens64K tokens65.536K tokens
Input modalitiestext, imagetext, image, video, audio, PDF
Knowledge cutoff--
Latency (measured)~847ms median response-
Reasoning modelYesYes
Tool / function callingYesYes
JSON modeYesYes
Prompt cachingYesYes

When to Choose Which

High volume on a budget: start with Claude Haiku 4.5; only pay for Gemini 3.1 Pro if the benchmark shows a quality gap that matters.
Long documents or big codebases: Gemini 3.1 Pro has the larger context window (1.04858M vs 200K tokens).
Everything else: the honest answer is to benchmark both on your actual task. Quality differences are task-specific and shift with every release.

FAQ

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemini 3.1 Pro?

Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1/$5 per 1M input/output tokens; Gemini 3.1 Pro costs $2/$12. On a typical task (1K input + 500 output tokens), Claude Haiku 4.5 is about 2.3x cheaper than Gemini 3.1 Pro.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemini 3.1 Pro?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has a 200K-token context window; Gemini 3.1 Pro has 1.04858M tokens.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Gemini 3.1 Pro?

It depends on the task. Generic leaderboards won't tell you which one wins on YOUR workload. OpenMark lets you benchmark Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemini 3.1 Pro head to head on your own task with real API calls, no API keys needed, free tier available.

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