Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Claude Haiku 5.5 from Anthropic and Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite from Google, side by side. Every figure comes from the model registry. No markup on model usage: you pay the provider's list price.

Side-by-side comparison of Claude Haiku 5.5, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite

Attribute	Claude Haiku 5.5	Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Provider	Anthropic	Google
Model id	anthropic/claude-haiku-5-5	google/gemini-3.5-flash-lite
Status	Available via Safeguard	Available via Safeguard
Input / 1M tokens	$0.10	$0.30
Output / 1M tokens	$0.50	$2.50
Price notes	Prompts up to 100,000 tokens. Prompts over 100,000 tokens: $0.50 in / $2.50 out.	Paid tier, same input price for text, image, video and audio, output includes thinking tokens.
Context	1M	1.05M
Parameters	Not published	Not published
Max output	128,000 tokens	65,536 tokens
Modality	Text and image	Text and image
Weights	Closed	Closed
Zero data retention	Available	Not offered
Prompts go to	Anthropic (global routing by default)	Google (Gemini Developer API)
Retention	Not used for model training without express permission, per Anthropic's API retention doc, conversation content is not retained by default except for Covered Models that require 30-day retention, flagged content and legal holds can be kept longer	Paid tier: prompts and responses not used to improve Google products, but logged for a limited period for abuse monitoring, free tier content may be used to improve products
Region	Global by default, US-only inference via inference_geo at 1.1x pricing (Claude 4.6 and later)	No region guarantee, data may be stored transiently or cached in any country where Google operates. Google points ZDR and enterprise processing needs to Vertex AI (Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform)
Price checked	2026-10-08	2026-10-08

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