Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite: extraction & input choices
A lightweight extraction workflow may still require PDFs, audio or images. This comparison separates those input requirements from the standard text-token budget.
A document workflow may need more than text
Flash-Lite's documented inputs include text, image, audio, video and PDF. Haiku's reviewed inputs are text and image. If you preprocess a document into text, that processing cost and its effect on the task remain outside this comparison. The page does not infer direct PDF support for Haiku from its image capability.
Use the relevant input tier
Haiku's base text rates are $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens, increasing above 100,000 input tokens. Flash-Lite lists $0.30 input and $2.50 output. Cache-read rates appear separately. Large inputs can change the comparison that a short-request estimate suggests.
Specify what a correct extraction means
A valid JSON object can still contain incorrect fields. Test missing values, source quotes and the exact schema your application consumes. No authorized extraction benchmark has been imported, so this guide gives integration and price facts without claiming a more accurate model.
Documented specifications and standard direct API rates, manually checked 2026-10-09. Evaluation suggestions are editorial guidance; no measured comparative quality or speed is claimed.
Unknown fields are not evidence of equal capabilities. Specifications describe support, not comparative answer quality.
BENCHMARK EVIDENCE
No reliable data available
Comparable results with confirmed reuse permission have not been published here yet.
A published result must include the exact model version, benchmark version, original value and unit, test date, conditions and source. No scores or overall rankings are inferred.
Paid-tier Standard text pricing. Excludes cache storage/creation, tools, audio/video/image tokens, taxes and other processing tiers. Output includes thinking tokens.
KNOW YOUR API COST
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.
2 estimated credits / comparison2,000 credits across 1,000 comparisons.Reference estimate only. Playground uses verified OpenRouter charges; 1,000 credits = $1. A + B round up together once for each comparison.
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