Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025
Compare Claude Haiku 4.5 by Anthropic against Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 by Google AI, context windows of 200K vs 1.0M, tested across 54 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Haiku 4.5
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025
No community votes yet. On paper, these are closely matched - try both with your actual task to see which fits your workflow.
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 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
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025
Input
$0.10
10× cheaper
Output
$0.40
13× cheaper
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025 is cheaper on both — 10× input, 13× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
39%
Claude Haiku 4.5 uses 20.4x more emoji
Claude Haiku 4.5
Google: Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite Preview 09-2025
61%Vocabulary52%
47wSentence Length19w
0.64Hedging0.35
5.1Bold6.3
6.3Lists2.8
0.20Emoji0.00
2.46Headings0.74
0.17Transitions0.12
Based on 24 + 22 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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