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Gemini 2.5 Flash vs Claude Haiku 4.5

Google DeepMind vs Anthropic. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

Gemini 2.5 Flash leads on LMSYS ELO (1312 vs 1305). Gemini 2.5 Flash is ~3.0× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend.

Google DeepMind

Google’s price/performance darling. 1M context at $0.30/M input — nobody comes close on throughput-per-dollar.

Absurd cost-to-context ratioFast multimodalFree tier via AI Studio

Anthropic

Fast, cheap, and smart enough for most routing and extraction tasks. Great base model for subagents.

Sub-second latency10x cheaper than OpusStrong structured output

Pricing

Input / 1M$0.30$0.80

Output / 1M$1.20$4.00

Context1.0M200K

Max output32K16K

LicenseProprietaryProprietary

Released2026-02-052025-10-01

Benchmarks

LMSYS ELO1312.01305.0

MMLU Pro82.181.4

HumanEval85.887.0

SWE-Bench—49.2

MATH84.276.8

MMMU74.6—

IFEval86.187.3

Per-task cost

Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.0051$0.014

Review a 500-line pull request$0.0048$0.014

Answer a customer support ticket$0.0019$0.0056

Extract structured data from a resume$0.0027$0.0080

Debug a stack trace with context$0.0042$0.013

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.

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