Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Gemini 2.5 Flash
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Claude 3.5 Haiku is deprecated and can no longer be run. Details and evals are still available on its model page.
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Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Gemini 2.5 Flash Comparison Table
Evals updated August 14, 2026Pricing updated August 16, 2026
| Property | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Gemini 2.5 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Oct 2024 | Jul 2025 |
| Context Window | 200K | 1.0M |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.300 | |
| Output $/1M | $2.50 | |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Gemini 2.5 Flash: Overview
Claude 3.5 Haiku, released by Anthropic in October 2024, is the fastest member of the Claude 3.5 family, optimized for low-latency, high-throughput applications. It is a multimodal model that handles both text and image inputs and supports a large ~200,000-token context window. Haiku is designed to balance efficiency with intelligence, outperforming even Claude 3 Opus on several reasoning benchmarks while maintaining its hallmark speed.
Typical applications include real-time chatbots, code completion, large-scale data extraction, and content moderation—scenarios where rapid response and scalability are essential.
Gemini 2.5 Flash, released on June 17, 2025, is Google DeepMind’s production-ready, efficiency-focused model in the Gemini 2.5 family. It is multimodal, accepting text, images, video, and audio as inputs, with text as the primary output format. The model supports 1 million input tokens and up to 65K output tokens, enabling it to process very large contexts such as books, long video transcripts, or extensive datasets. Its training knowledge extends to January 2025.
Designed as a price-performance leader, Gemini 2.5 Flash balances speed and reasoning power, making it suitable for everyday enterprise and developer use cases without the higher latency and cost of Pro models. It supports advanced workflows like function calling, code execution, search grounding, URL context ingestion, and structured outputs. While efficient and scalable, output length is still limited compared to its input capacity, and multimodal outputs (e.g. image or audio generation) remain restricted to specialized or preview variants.