Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite: API Price & Latency Comparison

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite is 91.2% cheaper ($35.81/mo vs $405.00/mo), while Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite leads in token generation speed (220 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric Claude 3.5 Haiku (Anthropic) Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (Google Gemini API) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $0.800 $0.075 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $0.080 $0.020 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $4.00 $0.30 Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1238 LMSYS Elo 1210 LMSYS Elo Claude 3.5 Haiku
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $405.00 / mo $35.81 / mo Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite (-91.2%)
Context Window 200,000 tokens 1,000,000 tokens Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Output Speed (Throughput) 130 tokens/sec 220 tokens/sec Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite
Batch API Discount -50% (Anthropic) -50% (Google Gemini API) Anthropic
Primary Workload Fit Fast code sub-tasks, real-time moderation, heavy prompt-cached pipelines Mass web scraping enrichment, classification at millions of rows per day Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try Claude 3.5 Haiku → Try Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite → Open Full Simulator