Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 2.5 Flash

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	Claude Haiku 4.5 Fast, cheap small model for classification, routing, high-volume work.	Gemini 2.5 Flash Google's fast, cheap small model; long context, native multimodal.
Category	model	model
Vendor type	commercial	commercial
Pricing	usage	free
Strengths	+ Lowest cost in Claude family + Low latency suitable for real-time interactions + Strong instruction-following for its size	+ Very long context for its tier + Native multimodal + Low cost
Tradeoffs	− Weaker on complex reasoning vs Sonnet/Opus − Lower context window than Sonnet	− Tool-use ergonomics differ from OpenAI/Anthropic
Used in stacks	4	0