Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) vs Gemini 1.5 Pro

Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) vs Gemini 1.5 Pro: Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) is cheaper by 4%. Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) from Amazon Bedrock (200,000-token context) vs. Gemini 1.5 Pro from Google Vertex AI (2,097,152-token context). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.

Side-by-side cost

Live workload comparison

Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.

3,000
02,000,000
400
064,000
5,000
01,000,000
Amazon Bedrock
$761/mo
Input $1.00/M · Output $5.00/M
Google Vertex AI
$875/mo
Input $1.25/M · Output $5.00/M
At this workload, Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) is 13% cheaper than Gemini 1.5 Pro — a savings of $114/month ($1,370/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: anthropic-claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
  provider: bedrock
fallback:
  model: gemini-1-5-pro
  provider: vertex-ai
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live
Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) Gemini 1.5 Pro
Input price $1.00/M $1.25/M
Output price $5.00/M $5.00/M
Context window 200,000 2,097,152
Max output 64,000 8,192
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 16, 2026 May 7, 2026
Cheaper option
~4% cheaper than the priciest in this pair
Larger context
2,097,152 tokens
More capabilities
5 of 6 capability flags advertised

Benchmark comparison

Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.

MMLUgeneral
Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01)
Gemini 1.5 Pro
85.9%
MATHmath
Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01)
Gemini 1.5 Pro
67.7%
MMMUmultimodal
Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01)
Gemini 1.5 Pro
62.2%
GPQAreasoning
Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01)
Gemini 1.5 Pro
46.2%