Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and most efficient model, delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost and latency of larger Claude models. Matching Claude Sonnet 4’s performance across reasoning, coding, and comp…
Model details →Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Google: Gemma 2 27B
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 wins on 4 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Gemma 2 27B by Google is an open model built from the same research and technology used to create the [Gemini models](/models?q=gemini). Gemma models are well-suited for a variety of text generation tasks, including question answering, sum…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 | Google: Gemma 2 27B | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 200K | 8K | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $1.00 | $0.65 | 🏆 Google: Gemma 2 27B |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $5.00 | $0.65 | 🏆 Google: Gemma 2 27B |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | — | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | — | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | — | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Google: Gemma 2 27B?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 wins on 4 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Google: Gemma 2 27B?
Input: $1.00 vs $0.65 per 1M tokens. Output: $5.00 vs $0.65 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Google: Gemma 2 27B support?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 supports up to 200K tokens. Google: Gemma 2 27B supports up to 8K tokens.
Do both Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 and Google: Gemma 2 27B support tool calling?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5: yes. Google: Gemma 2 27B: not advertised.