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Claude 3 Haiku vs Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B: Benchmarks, Pricing, and Context Window Comparison

Claude 3 Haiku vs Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B compares provider, context window, token pricing, benchmark performance, and release timeline in one side-by-side view. Use this page to quickly identify which model is a better fit for your production constraints, quality targets, and estimated cost per request.

Verdict

Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B has lower listed token pricing, while Claude 3 Haiku can still be preferable if benchmark results better match your workload.

Author: Mirai Minds Research Team

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Compare
Claude 3 Haiku
to
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B
Overview
Claude 3 Haiku was released 6 months before Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B.
Claude 3 Haiku
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B
Provider
The entity that provides this model.
Anthropic
Google
Input Context Window
The number of tokens supported by the input context window.
200K
tokens
1M
tokens
Maximum Output Tokens
The number of tokens that can be generated by the model in a single request.
4,096
tokens
8,192
tokens
Release Date
When the model was first released.
2024-03-13
2024-09-24
Leaderboard
Claude 3 Haiku
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B
Rank
11
Unknown
Arena Elo
1181
Not specified.
95% CI
+3/-3
Not specified.
Votes
66065
Not specified.
License
Proprietary
Not specified.
Knowledge Cutoff
8/2023
Unknown
Pricing
Claude 3 Haiku
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B
Input
Cost of input data provided to the model.
$0.25
per million tokens
$0.04
per million tokens
Output
Cost of output tokens generated by the model.
$1.25
per million tokens
$0.15
per million tokens
Benchmarks
Compare relevant benchmarks between Claude 3 Haiku and Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B Instruct.
Claude 3 Haiku
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B
MMLU
Evaluating LLM knowledge acquisition in zero-shot and few-shot settings.
76.7
(5-shot)
Source
Benchmark not available.
MMMU
A wide ranging multi-discipline and multimodal benchmark.
50.2
Source
53.7
Source
HellaSwag
A challenging sentence completion benchmark.
85.9
(10-shot)
Source
Benchmark not available.

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