Is Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview cheaper?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is cheaper on output tokens ($1.50 vs $15.00 per 1M).

Which has the larger context window, Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview?

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview has the larger context window (1M tokens).

Claude Sonnet 4.5 vs Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview

Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview is cheaper on output tokens, while Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview offers a larger context window. Choose Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview based on the trade-off between cost, context, and the benchmarks that matter for your use case.

Spec	Claude Sonnet 4.5	Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview
Provider	Neon	Neon
Input / 1M tokens	$3.00	$0.25
Output / 1M tokens	$15.00	$1.50
Context window	200K	1M
Parameters	—	—
Open weights	No	No
Released	Sep 2025	Mar 2026

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