Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) vs Gemini 3.1 Pro preview

Name: Gemini 3.1 Pro preview
Brand: Google Vertex AI
Price: 2.000000 USD

Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) vs Gemini 3.1 Pro preview: Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) is cheaper by 58% on average. Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) from Anthropic (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. Gemini 3.1 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

065,536

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01)Cheaper

Anthropic

$761/mo

Input $1.00/M · Output $5.00/M

Gemini 3.1 Pro preview

Google Vertex AI

$1,644/mo

Input $2.00/M · Output $12.00/M

At this workload, Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) is 54% cheaper than Gemini 3.1 Pro preview — a savings of $883/month ($10,592/year).

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
  provider: anthropic
fallback:
  model: gemini-3-1-pro-preview
  provider: vertex-ai
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	Claude Haiku 4.5 (2025-10-01) Anthropic	Gemini 3.1 Pro preview Google Vertex AI
Input price	$1.00/M	$2.00/M
Output price	$5.00/M	$12.00/M
Context window	200,000	1,048,576
Max output	64,000	65,536
Function calling	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio input	—	✓
Reasoning	✓	✓
Prompt caching	✓	✓
Structured output	✓	✓
Pricing verified	May 12, 2026	May 12, 2026