Claude 5.5 HaikuvsGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview

Claude 5.5 Haiku leads the overall Podium Score by 2.1 points (87.5 vs 85.4).Category wins: Claude 5.5 Haiku 4 — 2 Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview.Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview is the cheaper pick ($0.3/M vs $4/M per 1M output tokens). Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview is faster (210 t/s vs 145 t/s).

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Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview
85.4
Coding: 76.0 · Speed: 210 t/s
Output Price: $0.3/M
Claude 5.5 Haiku
87.5
Coding: 84.0 · Speed: 145 t/s
Output Price: $4/M
Quick VerdictAggregated 2026 Benchmark Analysis

Claude 5.5 Haiku is rated higher overall with a Podium Score of 87.5 (vs 85.4 for Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview). In head-to-head domain evaluations, Claude 5.5 Haiku outperforms in 4 of 7 benchmark categories.

Coding & Engineering
Claude 5.5 Haiku (84.0)
Inference Speed
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview (210 t/s)
Cost Efficiency
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview ($0.3/M)
API Price / 1M (in · out)
Claude 5.5 Haiku $0.8/M · $4/M — Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite $0.075/M · $0.3/M

Choose Claude 5.5 Haiku for complex reasoning and analysis, and Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview for long documents and large codebases.

MetricClaude 5.5 HaikuGemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview
Podium Score87.5 ▲85.4
Arena Elo1410 ▲1365
Intelligence Index88.0 ▲85.0
Coding84.0 ▲76.0
Math86.5 ▲80.0
Reasoning88.0 ▲82.0
Agentic78.5 ▲74.0
Knowledge81.081.0
Multimodal88.089.0 ▲
Long-context91.094.0 ▲
Output speed145 t/s210 t/s ▲
Output price$4/M$0.3/M ▲
Context window500K1000K ▲
Scores aggregated from five independent leaderboards. See Methodology. More head-to-heads: Claude 5.5 Haiku vs Claude Mythos · Claude 5.5 Haiku vs Claude 5.5 Sonnet · Claude 5.5 Haiku vs Kimi K3.1 Pro · Claude 5.5 Haiku vs Eleven Multilingual v3
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