Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
Which is better for the money: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) by Anthropic or Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite by Google? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium)
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite vs Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium): 35.7% less intelligence, 548.7% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 30.7% faster end-to-end.
| Metric | Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) | Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 34.5 | 22.2 | −35.7% Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is 35.7% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $56.36 | $365.63 | +548.7% Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is 6.5× more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 13.12s | 9.09s | −30.7% Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is 30.7% faster |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $0.10 / $0.50 | $0.30 / $2.50 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text, Image, Speech, Video |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.
- Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Medium) scores 47.80 for $361.
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