Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite leads with 7.0% higher average benchmark score. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite offers 714.1K more tokens in context window than Claude 3.5 Haiku. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is $4.30 cheaper per million tokens. Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite supports multimodal inputs. Claude 3.5 Haiku is available on 3 providers. Overall, Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku was developed as the next generation of Anthropic's fastest model, offering similar speed to Claude 3 Haiku while surpassing Claude 3 Opus on many intelligence benchmarks. Built with low latency, improved instruction following, and accurate tool use, it serves user-facing products, specialized sub-agent tasks, and data-heavy applications.
Gemini 2.5 Flash Lite was created as the most efficient option in the Gemini 2.5 family, designed to provide cutting-edge capabilities with minimal computational overhead. Built for applications where cost and latency are primary concerns, it extends advanced multimodal understanding to resource-conscious deployments.
7 months newer

Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
2024-10-22

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
2025-06-17
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite
2025-01-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude 3.5 Haiku
Anthropic
Bedrock

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite

Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite