Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
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Claude Haiku 5.5
Focused extraction, classification and routing tasks.
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite
Earlier Flash-Lite for lightweight text tasks.
Key differences
Everyday overview| Specification | MODEL AClaude Haiku 5.5 | MODEL BGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Shared context window | 1,000,000 | Not verified |
| Input token limit | Not verified | 1,048,576 |
| Maximum output tokens | 128,000 | 65,536 |
| Accepted input | text, image | text, image, audio, video, pdf |
| Output | text | text |
| Reasoning | Supported | Supported |
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Official API pricing
USD / 1M text tokens · Standard| Token rate / condition | MODEL AClaude Haiku 5.5 | MODEL BGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Base input / 1M | $0.10 | $0.25 |
| Base output / 1M | $0.50 | $1.50 |
| Cached input read / 1M | $0.01 | $0.025 |
| Higher tier above input tokens | 100,000 | No tier documented |
| Higher-tier input / 1M | $0.50 | Not verified |
| Higher-tier output / 1M | $2.50 | Not verified |
| Higher-tier cache read / 1M | $0.05 | Not verified |
| Price review required after | No expiry documented | No expiry documented |
Official pricing source · verified 2026-10-09
Text tokens only. Output includes thinking tokens. Cache reads are a subset of input. Cache creation, tools and media fees are excluded.
Official pricing source · verified 2026-10-09
Paid-tier Standard text pricing. Excludes cache storage/creation, tools, audio/video/image tokens, taxes and other processing tiers. Output includes thinking tokens.
A small prompt. A clearer budget.
Same token counts for both models. Standard paid text rates in USD. Output must include all billable reasoning tokens.
Cached input is included in total input. No cache creation/storage, tools, media, taxes or regional/priority/Batch fees. Tokenizers differ; equal token counts do not imply equal text length.
Base tier · Official rates · verified 2026-10-09
Base tier · Official rates · verified 2026-10-09
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