Claude 3.5 Haiku (2024-10-22) vs Gemini 3 Pro Preview

Name: Gemini 3 Pro Preview
Brand: Google Vertex AI
Price: 2.000000 USD

Claude 3.5 Haiku (2024-10-22) vs Gemini 3 Pro Preview: Claude 3.5 Haiku (2024-10-22) is cheaper by 67% on average. Claude 3.5 Haiku (2024-10-22) from Anthropic (200,000-token context, tool calls) vs. Gemini 3 Pro Preview from Google Vertex AI (1,048,576-token context, reasoning, tool calls). 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.

Input tokens / request3,000

01,048,576

Output tokens / request400

065,535

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

Claude 3.5 Haiku (2024-10-22)Cheaper

Anthropic

$609/mo

Input $0.800/M · Output $4.00/M

Gemini 3 Pro Preview

Google Vertex AI

$1,644/mo

Input $2.00/M · Output $12.00/M

At this workload, Claude 3.5 Haiku (2024-10-22) is 63% cheaper than Gemini 3 Pro Preview — a savings of $1,035/month ($12,419/year).

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: claude-3-5-haiku-20241022
  provider: anthropic
fallback:
  model: gemini-3-pro-preview
  provider: vertex-ai
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	Claude 3.5 Haiku (2024-10-22) Anthropic	Gemini 3 Pro Preview Google Vertex AI
Input price	$0.800/M	$2.00/M
Output price	$4.00/M	$12.00/M
Context window	200,000	1,048,576
Max output	8,192	65,535
Function calling	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio input	—	✓
Reasoning	—	✓
Prompt caching	✓	✓
Structured output	✓	✓
Pricing verified	May 7, 2026	May 12, 2026