Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Gemini 2.5 Pro: API Price & Latency Comparison

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), Claude 3.5 Haiku is 54.6% cheaper ($405.00/mo vs $892.50/mo), while Claude 3.5 Haiku leads in token generation speed (130 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric Claude 3.5 Haiku (Anthropic) Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google Gemini API) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $0.800 $1.250 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $0.080 $0.310 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $4.00 $10.00 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1238 LMSYS Elo 1322 LMSYS Elo Gemini 2.5 Pro
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $405.00 / mo $892.50 / mo Claude 3.5 Haiku (-54.6%)
Context Window 200,000 tokens 2,000,000 tokens Gemini 2.5 Pro
Output Speed (Throughput) 130 tokens/sec 85 tokens/sec Claude 3.5 Haiku
Batch API Discount -50% (Anthropic) -50% (Google Gemini API) Anthropic
Primary Workload Fit Fast code sub-tasks, real-time moderation, heavy prompt-cached pipelines Massive repository analysis (2M context), video/audio understanding, deep reasoning Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try Claude 3.5 Haiku → Try Gemini 2.5 Pro → Open Full Simulator