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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 3 Flash Preview: API cost

Standard, cached and batch API prices for Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) and Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Google), and what each costs for your usage.

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Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 at standard rates, with 2× cheaper input and 40% cheaper output.

Your usage
Claude Haiku 4.5 / month $78.00 $0.0026 per request
  • Input $30.00
  • Cached input $3.00
  • Output $45.00
Gemini 3 Flash Preview / month $43.50 $0.0014 per request
  • Input $15.00
  • Cached input $1.50
  • Output $27.00
Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper for this usage by $34.50 a month (44% less).

How cost changes with reply length

  • Claude Haiku 4.5
  • Gemini 3 Flash Preview
$0$2$4$602004006008001,000Output tokens per 1,000 input tokensClaude Haiku 4.5Gemini 3 Flash Pr…
Cost of 1,000 requests with 1,000 input tokens each, at standard rates without caching. Hover or use the arrow keys to read values.
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Output tokensClaude Haiku 4.5Gemini 3 Flash Preview
0$1.00$0.5
250$2.25$1.25
500$3.50$2.00
750$4.75$2.75
1,000$6.00$3.50

Price per million tokens

Token typeClaude Haiku 4.5Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Input$1$0.50
Cached input$0.10$0.05
Output$5$3
Batch input$0.50$0.25
Batch cached input$0.05$0.05
Batch output$2.50$1.50

Gemini 3 Flash Preview: Audio input costs more.

Standard rates in USD, before tax Claude API pricing Gemini API pricing

Monthly cost for typical workloads

WorkloadClaude Haiku 4.5Gemini 3 Flash Preview
Support chatbot
2,000 in / 300 out tokens, 1,000 requests a day, 50% cached
$78.00$43.50
Document summaries
10,000 in / 800 out tokens, 200 requests a day
$84.00$44.40
Tagging / classifying
400 in / 20 out tokens, 20,000 requests a day
$300.00$156.00
Standard rates in USD, before tax. A month is 30 days.

Or see Claude Haiku 4.5 pricing, Gemini 3 Flash Preview pricing, or compare any two models.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 cheaper than Gemini 3 Flash Preview?

Gemini 3 Flash Preview is cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 at standard rates, with 2× cheaper input and 40% cheaper output. Based on standard API rates last checked on 30 Sept 2026.

How much do Claude Haiku 4.5 and Gemini 3 Flash Preview cost per million tokens?

Claude Haiku 4.5: $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. Gemini 3 Flash Preview: $0.50 input and $3 output. These are standard rates in USD, before tax, from each provider’s own pricing page.

Which is cheaper with the Batch API?

Claude Haiku 4.5’s batch rates are $0.50 input and $2.50 output per million tokens (50% off); Gemini 3 Flash Preview’s batch rates are $0.25 input and $1.50 output per million tokens (50% off).

Does prompt caching change the comparison?

Claude Haiku 4.5 charges $0.10 per million cached input tokens, against $1 for normal input; Gemini 3 Flash Preview charges $0.05 per million cached input tokens, against $0.50 for normal input. Cache write and storage charges are extra and aren’t included here.

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