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Claude 3 Haiku vs Claude Opus 4.5

A detailed comparison of pricing, benchmarks, and capabilities

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Key Takeaways

Claude 3 Haiku wins:

  • Cheaper input tokens
  • Cheaper output tokens
  • Faster response time

Claude Opus 4.5 wins:

  • Higher intelligence benchmark
  • Better at coding
  • Better at math
  • Has reasoning mode
Price Advantage
Claude 3 Haiku
Benchmark Advantage
Claude Opus 4.5
Context Window
Claude Opus 4.5
Speed
Claude 3 Haiku

Pricing Comparison

Benchmark Comparison

Context & Performance

Capabilities

Feature Comparison

FeatureClaude 3 HaikuClaude Opus 4.5
Vision (Image Input)
Tool/Function Calls
Reasoning Mode
Audio Input
Audio Output
PDF Input
Prompt Caching
Web Search

License & Release

PropertyClaude 3 HaikuClaude Opus 4.5
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
AuthorAnthropicAnthropic
ReleasedMar 2024Nov 2025

Claude 3 Haiku Modalities

Input
textimage
Output
text

Claude Opus 4.5 Modalities

Input
fileimagetext
Output
text

Frequently Asked Questions

Claude 3 Haiku has cheaper input pricing at $0.25/M tokens. Claude 3 Haiku has cheaper output pricing at $1.25/M tokens.
Claude Opus 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks with a score of 42.9, compared to Claude 3 Haiku's score of 6.7.
Claude 3 Haiku has a 200,000 token context window, while Claude Opus 4.5 has a 200,000 token context window.
Claude 3 Haiku supports vision. Claude Opus 4.5 supports vision.