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Gemini 2.5 Ultra vs Claude Haiku 4.5

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

Verdict

Gemini 2.5 Ultra leads on LMSYS ELO (1385 vs 1305). Claude Haiku 4.5 is ~6.6× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend.

Google DeepMind
Gemini 2.5 Ultra

2M-token context, native video understanding, and Google’s deepest multimodal stack. The long-context king.

2M context windowNative videoBest multimodal reasoning
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5

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$7.00$0.80
Output / 1M$21.00$4.00
Context2.0M200K
Max output64K16K
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Released2026-02-052025-10-01
Benchmarks
LMSYS ELO1385.01305.0
MMLU Pro90.481.4
HumanEval90.287.0
SWE-Bench58.349.2
MATH92.076.8
MMMU82.1
IFEval89.787.3
Per-task cost
Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.115$0.014
Review a 500-line pull request$0.098$0.014
Answer a customer support ticket$0.038$0.0056
Extract structured data from a resume$0.056$0.0080
Debug a stack trace with context$0.084$0.013

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