Gemini 3.8 Flash vs Claude Haiku 5.5.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is 7.5x cheaper.

For a chatbot doing 100K requests a month with 1,000 input and 500 output tokens each: $35.00 vs $262.50.

Google Gemini

Gemini 3.8 Flash

Input / 1M$0.75
Cached / 1M$0.075
Output / 1M$3.75
Context—
Chatbot at 100K req/mo$262.50

Source · Oct 20, 2026

Anthropic

Claude Haiku 5.5

Input / 1M$0.10
Cached / 1M$0.01
Output / 1M$0.50
Context—
Chatbot at 100K req/mo$35.00

Source · Oct 20, 2026

Price isn't everything: check quality on your own prompts. Claude Haiku 5.5 wins on list price for this workload, but output-heavy jobs (long answers, agents, reasoning) shift the math toward whichever model has the lower output price, which here is Claude Haiku 5.5.

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