Claude 3 Haiku vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
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Claude 3 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 Haiku vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Comparison Table
Evals updated August 20, 2026Pricing updated August 23, 2026
| Property | Claude 3 Haiku | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Mar 2024 | Jul 2025 |
| Context Window | 200K | 1.0M |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.100 | |
| Output $/1M | $0.400 | |
| 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 Haiku vs Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite: Overview
Claude 3 Haiku is a large language model developed by Anthropic and released in March 2024 as part of the Claude 3 family, alongside Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus. It is designed to be the fastest and most cost-efficient model in the series, optimized for high-throughput applications.
Like the other Claude 3 models, Haiku is multimodal, able to process both text and image inputs while generating text outputs. It supports a context window of up to 200,000 tokens, with Anthropic noting that the Claude 3 models are technically capable of handling inputs exceeding one million tokens in special cases.
Haiku is positioned as a model well-suited for scenarios that demand speed and scalability at lower cost, such as customer support, summarization, and other tasks where rapid responses are prioritized. Compared to the larger Claude 3 Sonnet and Opus, Haiku provides lower latency and higher efficiency, while the larger models offer stronger reasoning and depth of analysis.
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite, released for general availability on July 22, 2025, is the most cost-efficient model in the Gemini 2.5 family, designed for high-volume and latency-sensitive tasks. It is multimodal, supporting text, images, video, audio, and PDFs as inputs, with text as its primary output. The model handles up to 1 million input tokens and generates outputs up to 64K tokens, making it suitable for large-scale document or media processing at low cost. It is built on a Sparse Mixture-of-Experts architecture with native multimodal support, though exact parameter counts are undisclosed.
Flash-Lite offers the lowest usage cost among Gemini 2.5 models. It introduces developer controls for “thinking mode,” allowing fine-tuning of reasoning depth vs. efficiency. It also integrates native tools such as code execution, search grounding, and URL context. While strong on translation, classification, coding, and general multimodal reasoning, it lacks support for image or audio generation in its stable release and is less capable than Gemini 2.5 Flash or Pro on complex reasoning-heavy workflows.