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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Gemma 4 31B

Side-by-side API pricing and Artificial Analysis performance for Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) and Gemma 4 31B (Google). Green cells mark the better value in each row.

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:39 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

Claude Haiku 4.5

Anthropic

Gemma 4 31B

Google

Pricing
Input $/1M$1.00$0.12
Output $/1M$5.00$0.37
Blended $/1M (3:1)$2.00$0.182
RAG example (30K in / 2K out)$0.04$0.00434
Quality & speed
Intelligence Index29.629.4
Coding Index43.943.4
Agentic Index16.414.4
Output speed (tok/s)35
Time to first token0.98s
Specs
Context window200K262K
Input modalitiestext, image, fileimage, text, video

FAQ

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Gemma 4 31B?

Gemma 4 31B has the lower blended API price at $0.182 per 1M tokens (3:1 input:output mix), versus $2.00 for the other model. Prices are live from OpenRouter and refresh about hourly.

Which is better for RAG workloads?

For a typical RAG request (30K input / 2K output tokens), Gemma 4 31B costs about $0.00434 per request versus $0.04. Also compare context windows: Claude Haiku 4.5 offers 200K and Gemma 4 31B offers 262K.

Which scores higher on Artificial Analysis benchmarks?

Claude Haiku 4.5 leads on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (29.6 vs 29.4). Check coding and agentic indices on this page for workload-specific tradeoffs.