Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash
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Data updated on September 30, 2026· 217 models
Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and most efficient model, delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost and latency of larger Claude models.
- Reasoning estimated
- Speed estimated
- Input
- Output
- Context
- 200 K tokens
- Max output
- 64 K
- Input, $ per 1M tokens
- $1.00
- Output, $ per 1M tokens
- $5.00
- Cache read, $ per 1M
- $0.100
- Batch (input / output)
- $0.500 / $2.50
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Released
- 10/15/2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- 2025-02-28
- API id
- anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
Gemini 3.8 Flash is Google's most intelligent Flash model with significant gains from 3.7 Flash across software engineering, agentic tasks, and multi-step reasoning.
- Reasoning estimated
- Speed estimated
- Input
- Output
- Context
- ▲1 M tokens
- Max output
- ▲66 K
- Input, $ per 1M tokens
- ▲$0.750
- Output, $ per 1M tokens
- ▲$3.75
- Cache read, $ per 1M
- $0.075
- Batch (input / output)
- $0.375 / $1.88
- Tool calling
- Yes
- Released
- ▲09/02/2026
- Knowledge cutoff
- —
- API id
- google/gemini-3.8-flash
Which is the better API choice: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash?
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: cheapest input (25% less than Claude Haiku 4.5)
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: cheapest output
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: largest context (1 M)
- Gemini 3.8 Flash: the newest (09/02/2026)
Gemini 3.8 Flash costs 25% less on input and 25% less on output than Claude Haiku 4.5 ($0.750 / $3.75 versus $1.00 / $5.00 per million tokens). Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts more context (1 M). On capabilities, only Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts audio. Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemini 3.8 Flash offer a batch tier at half price for jobs that do not need an immediate answer.
What would your product cost?
Estimate the monthly cost with your app's real volume. List prices, no cache or batch discounts.
With Gemini 3.8 Flash you save $8.75 a month versus Claude Haiku 4.5 (25% less).
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Paste your prompt: tokens and cost per model
Rough estimate (about 4 characters per token). Nothing is sent to any server.
Cost of sending it 1,000 times (input only)
- 1Gemini 3.8 Flash Google$0.057
- 2Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic$0.076
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Frequently asked questions
Which is the better API choice: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3.8 Flash?
Gemini 3.8 Flash costs 25% less on input and 25% less on output than Claude Haiku 4.5 ($0.750 / $3.75 versus $1.00 / $5.00 per million tokens). Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts more context (1 M). On capabilities, only Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts audio. Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemini 3.8 Flash offer a batch tier at half price for jobs that do not need an immediate answer.
Which is cheaper: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemini 3.8 Flash?
Gemini 3.8 Flash is cheaper: $0.750 per million input tokens and $3.75 per million output tokens, versus $1.00 / $5.00 for Claude Haiku 4.5.
Which has more context: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemini 3.8 Flash?
Gemini 3.8 Flash accepts 1 M tokens of context; Claude Haiku 4.5 accepts 200 K.
Which is newer: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemini 3.8 Flash?
Gemini 3.8 Flash was released on 09/02/2026; Claude Haiku 4.5 on 10/15/2025.
What would 10,000 requests a month cost with Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemini 3.8 Flash?
With 1,500 input and 400 output tokens per request: Claude Haiku 4.5: $35.00; Gemini 3.8 Flash: $26.25 a month, at list price.
Where do the prices come from and how often are they updated?
From the public catalogs of OpenRouter, models.dev and LiteLLM, which publish each provider's list prices. They sync once a day and the last update date is shown above the comparison.
What does price per million tokens mean?
It is what the provider charges per million tokens you send (input) or the model generates (output). A token is roughly 4 characters. Output almost always costs more than input.
Sources: OpenRouter, models.dev and LiteLLM. Prices in USD per million tokens, list price, no volume discounts. Prompt tokens are an estimate; each provider's tokenizer may differ.