Model comparison
Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 is the cheaper of the two on input tokens, by a factor of 7.5. Gemini 3.8 Flash lists $0.75 in and $3.75 out per million tokens with a 1.05M context window; Claude Haiku 5.5 lists $0.10 and $0.50 with 1M.
| Gemini 3.8 Flash | Claude Haiku 5.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Anthropic | |
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.75 | $0.10 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $3.75 | $0.50 |
| Context window | 1.05M | 1M |
| Max output | 66K | 128K |
| Modality | Multimodal | Multimodal |
| Open weights | No | No |
| Released | 2026-09-02 | 2026-10-07 |
| Source | Provider documentation | Provider documentation |
| Illustrative month* | $45 | $6 |
* 100 calls a day, about 10,000 tokens in and 2,000 out each, at list price, before caching, batching or volume discounts. Illustrative only. Pricing and context data verified 2026-10-11; "Secondary" figures come from pricing aggregators and trade press, so check the provider before relying on them. No benchmark scores: see methodology.
Gemini 3.8 Flash
Google's most capable Flash model, aimed at long-horizon software engineering and agents. Sold at an introductory $0.75 / $3.75 through the end of 2026; the list price from 1 January 2027 is $1.50 / $7.50.
- Watch: Price doubles on 1 January 2027
- Watch: Thinking level minimal returns an error
Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic's fast tier for classification, extraction and routing, now with a 1M-token window. The only current Claude model priced by prompt length: ten cents in and fifty cents out per million tokens up to 100,000 prompt tokens, five times that above.
- Watch: Sampling parameters, budget_tokens thinking and assistant prefill return a 400 error
- Watch: Long prompts cost five times the short-prompt rate
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