Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17
Compare Claude Haiku 4.5 by Anthropic against Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17 by Google AI, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 11 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Haiku 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17Runner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge — bigger model tier, newer.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17 is 13x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Haiku 4.5
Input
$1.00
Output
$5.00
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17
Input
$0.10
10× cheaper
Output
$0.40
13× cheaper
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17 is cheaper on both — 10× input, 13× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
37%
Claude Haiku 4.5 uses 20.4x more emoji
Claude Haiku 4.5
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 06-17
61%Vocabulary61%
47wSentence Length10w
0.64Hedging0.12
5.1Bold1.9
6.3Lists4.2
0.20Emoji0.00
2.46Headings0.05
0.17Transitions0.00
Based on 24 + 3 text responses
Research
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