Which model is better: Claude 3.5 Haiku or Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is 90.6% cheaper for input tokens ($0.07 vs. $0.80 per 1M tokens) and $0.30 vs. $4.00 for output tokens (10.7x cost advantage). In terms of operational performance, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite delivers lower response latency at 78ms TTFT (112ms faster than Claude 3.5 Haiku) with 265 vs. 130 tok/s throughput. Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite leads coding evaluations at 55.4% SWE-bench Verified vs. 40.6% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 68.4% vs. 41.6% on GPQA Diamond.
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Verified Performance & Unit Economics Delta (12 Dimensions)
Daily synchronized metrics across token pricing, prompt cache economics, latency, throughput, and 5 capability benchmarks.
Metric / Dimension
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Net Delta / Advantage
Input Cost / 1M Tokens
$0.80
$0.07
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is 10.7x cheaper
Output Cost / 1M Tokens
$4.00
$0.30
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (92.5% lower)
Prompt Cache Read / 1M
$0.080
$0.015
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is 5.3x cheaper
Prompt Cache Write / 1M
$1.00
$0.07
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is 13.3x cheaper
Context Window (Max Output)
205k (8k out)
1,049k (33k out)
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (5.1x larger context)
Avg TTFT Response Latency
190ms
78ms
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (112ms faster)
Generation Speed (Throughput)
130 tok/s
265 tok/s
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (+135 tok/s faster)
SWE-bench Verified (Coding)
40.6%
55.4%
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (+14.8% lead)
GPQA Diamond (PhD STEM)
41.6%
68.4%
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (+26.8% lead)
MMLU-Pro (Multi-Discipline)
71%
80.1%
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (+9.1% lead)
MATH-500 (Quantitative Logic)
69.4%
90.2%
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (+20.8% lead)
Inference Value Score (IVR)
52.4 / 100
81.5 / 100
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (+29.1 pts)
Interactive Monthly Token Economics & ROI Forecaster
Model production workloads across prompt, completion, and cached context tokens, or switch models on the fly.
Which is cheaper: Claude 3.5 Haiku or Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is cheaper at $0.075/1M input tokens ($0.30/1M output) compared to $0.80/1M input ($4.00/1M output) for Claude 3.5 Haiku.
Which model has lower TTFT latency and higher tok/s throughput: Claude 3.5 Haiku or Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite delivers faster first-token latency at 78ms TTFT (265 tok/s throughput) compared to 190ms TTFT (130 tok/s) for Claude 3.5 Haiku.
How do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite compare on SWE-bench coding and GPQA Diamond reasoning?
On SWE-bench Verified software engineering, Claude 3.5 Haiku scores 40.6% versus 55.4% for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite. On GPQA Diamond graduate-level STEM reasoning, Claude 3.5 Haiku scores 41.6% versus 68.4% for Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (and 69.4% vs 90.2% on MATH-500).
When should you choose Claude 3.5 Haiku?
Choose Claude 3.5 Haiku (Anthropic) for rapid customer-facing chat, sub-agent routing, and real-time code autocomplete — offering a 204k context window, 190ms TTFT, and $0.80/1M input pricing ($0.080/1M cached reads).
When should you choose Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite?
Choose Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite (Google) for high-frequency data pipelines, real-time routing, large-scale document tagging, and ultra-low-cost conversational assistants — offering a 1,048k context window, 78ms TTFT, and $0.07/1M input pricing ($0.015/1M cached reads).
