Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Claude Haiku 4.5 costs 2.0x less per output token than Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 ($5.00 vs $10.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 3 benchmarks have a result for both.
Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05: which to pick
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a coding score, 35.6 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 for a larger context window (1.05M against 200K tokens) and work measured by LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) or GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run), where it leads.
- Shared results
- 3
- Claude Haiku 4.5 only
- 92
- Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 only
- 12
- Like-for-like categories
- 3 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 16.9.
Directional only
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a AA Agentic Index result, 8.0.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 72.2%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a AIME result, 82.7%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a MMLU Pro result, 78.7%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1122.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 takes 1.05M tokens against 200K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5 $0.0035, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 $0.0063 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has the number, $0.56.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Haiku 4.5 35.6 from 4 benchmarks, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 not benchmarked.
- Widest category
- Coding, 38.0 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- LiveCodeBench (Vals AI): Claude Haiku 4.5 41.2% against Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 79.2%, 38.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Haiku 4.5 $5.00 against Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 $10.00 per million output tokens, 2.0x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Haiku 4.5 takes 200K tokens, Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 1.05M.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Bars | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 1 | ||
| All shared boards | 1 | 2 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index01
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 83.1% | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | 66.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 64.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench coding | 48.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1330 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 43.9 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 41.2% | 79.2% | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 66.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 11.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 7.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 77.8% | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 35.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 3.9% | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| WeirdML | 45.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1454 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1439 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1326 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1318 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 7.7% | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 16.9 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 142.2 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 8.0 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench research | 42.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 40.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 11.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 31.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 5.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 10.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 22.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| METR time horizons | Not measured | 55.4% | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| Remote Labor Index | Not measured | 0.8% | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| BALROG | 31.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 45.5% | 42.8% | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $459 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | 68.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 27 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 72.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 61.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 46.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 83.6% | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 19.9% | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 71.2% | 84.8% | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
| ARC-AGI | 47.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 62.4% | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 8.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| VPCT | Not measured | 46.4% | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1421 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1443 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1435 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 8 boards here | |||
MathDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index6 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 82.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 92.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 66.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MATH level 5 | 96.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1398 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1430 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 78.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 81.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 56.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 60.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 67.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 62.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 79.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 32.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 85.8% | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 13.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1406 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1394 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1400 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1400 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 4 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1122 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1097 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1097 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1124 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1071 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1114 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1025 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1140 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench design | 59.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index27 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 59.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 54.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 31.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 85.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 42.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| DTBench | 73.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMCA | 30.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 91.7% | Only Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 measured |
| ExploitBench | 13.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1397 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1414 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1371 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1414 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1377 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1418 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1374 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1338 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1346 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1411 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1421 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1381 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1343 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1409 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1427 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1386 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1369 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1420 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Haiku 4.5 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Haiku 4.5 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Haiku 4.5 costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 | Google Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | October 15, 2025 | June 5, 2025 |
| Context window | 200K | 1.05M |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.00 | $1.25 |
| Output $/Mtok | $5.00 | $10.00 |
| Coding index | 35.6 | Not benchmarked |
| Independent measurements behind it | 4 | 0 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.56 | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 for coding?
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a coding score, 35.6 on the Vibe Coding Index; Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 for a larger context window (1.05M against 200K tokens) and work measured by LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) or GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run), where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05?
Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1.00 per million input tokens and $5.00 per million output tokens; Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 costs $1.25 and $10.00. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Haiku 4.5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05?
Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05, with 1.05M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 comparison based on?
3 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Haiku 4.5's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.