Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 32 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

29.2

Rank #315 Confirmed

Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic

39.5

Rank #165 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 32 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 1 category and Claude Haiku 4.5 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Haiku 4.5 leads 44.9 to 14.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.3% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 66.7% for Claude Haiku 4.5.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Haiku and Claude Haiku 4.5 specifications
Claude 3.5 HaikuClaude Haiku 4.5
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Noometry Index29.239.5
Released2024-10-222025-10-15
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—64K
Input $ / M tokens—$1
Output $ / M tokens—$5
Results tracked4953

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Category by category

Coding Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.0 (#78)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Haiku 4.5
SciCode27.4%43.3%
WeirdML30.7%45.4%
LMArena Coding12861453
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)—66.6%
Aider Polyglot28%—
LMArena WebDev—1330
SWE-bench Multilingual—64.7%
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59%—
CadEval32%—
ALE-Bench—653.48

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.6 (#52)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Haiku 4.5
BALROG19.3%31.2%
Terminal-Bench—35.5%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard—68.7%
DeepResearch Bench—45.5%
ExploitBench—13.7%
Vending-Bench 2—458.89

Reasoning Claude 3.5 Haiku leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#320)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Haiku 4.5
CritPt0%0%
LMArena Hard Prompts12511420
DTBench56.7%73.6%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15142.41
ARC-AGI-2—4%
NYT Connections (extended)—14.3%
ARC-AGI-1—47.7%
Chess Puzzles—8%
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%—
LMCA—30.9%
ForecastBench—61.4
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.9 (#78)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Haiku 4.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%66.7%
Omni-MATH22.4%56.1%
LMArena Math12441396
MATH Level 546.4%96.4%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%5.9%
LiveBench Math35.5%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—2.1%

Knowledge Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Claude Haiku 4.5: 37.7 (#153)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Haiku 4.5
GPQA Diamond38.1%71.2%
MMLU-Pro60.5%77.7%
GPQA (HELM)36.3%60.5%
LMArena Expert12081442
SimpleQA Verified—13.2%
Confabulations36.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—9.8%
MMLU74.3%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Claude Haiku 4.5: 26.8 (#118)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Vision1092—
GeoBench34%—
Blueprint-Bench 2—0%
LMArena Document—1420

Multilingual Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Claude Haiku 4.5: 49.9 (#129)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Non-English12381377
LMArena Chinese12291417
LMArena French12641408
LMArena German12371375
LMArena Japanese11751339
LMArena Korean11731347
LMArena Russian12531381
LMArena Spanish12611420

Instruction Following Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.4 (#149)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Haiku 4.5
IFEval79.2%80.1%
LMArena Instruction Following12411414
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%—

Long Context Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#92)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Longer Query12611427

Writing & Preference Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Claude Haiku 4.5: 57.9 (#123)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text12551396
LMArena Creative Writing12331372
WildBench76%83.9%
LMArena Multi-Turn12651409
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1146—
EQ-Bench 4—1064
LiveBench Language35.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Claude Haiku 4.5?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Claude Haiku 4.5 better for coding?

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Claude Haiku 4.5 share?

32 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53.

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