Model comparison
Claude 3 Haiku vs Claude Opus 5
Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Opus 5 in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Opus 5 leads 86.2 to 9.8.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.8% for Claude 3 Haiku and 98.9% for Claude Opus 5.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Haiku | Claude Opus 5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 67.8 |
| Released | 2024-03-07 | 2026-07-24 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | 1M |
| Max output | — | 128K |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | $5 |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | $25 |
| Results tracked | 37 | 57 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Opus 5 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Claude Opus 5: 67.5 (#5)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 9.8% | 91.8% |
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | 1534 |
| DeepSWE | — | 73.6% |
| FrontierCode | — | 53.4% |
| CursorBench | — | 46.6% |
| LMArena WebDev | — | 1691 |
| FrontierSWE | — | 52% |
| SciCode | — | 56.4% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | — |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
| ALE-Bench | — | 2,165 |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: —, Claude Opus 5: 55.6 (#1)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| APEX-Agents | — | 65.8% |
| OSWorld 2.0 | — | 31.4% |
| τ²-bench Banking | — | 48.7% |
| PostTrainBench | — | 35% |
| BALROG | — | 63.4% |
| GBAEval | — | 79.6% |
| GDP.pdf | — | 24% |
| Vending-Bench 2 | — | 11,182 |
Reasoning Claude Opus 5 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Claude Opus 5: 77.2 (#4)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | 1526 |
| DTBench | 50.1% | 97.9% |
| LMCA | 8.8% | 64.5% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.35 | 162.78 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | — | 90.4% |
| SimpleBench | — | 80.6% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | — | 94.3% |
| ARC-AGI-1 | — | 97.5% |
| CritPt | — | 29.1% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 42% |
| EBR-Bench | — | 45.7% |
| Mystery Game Puzzles | — | 59% |
| Bench to the Future 3 | — | 0.12 |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | — |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | — |
Math Claude Opus 5 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Claude Opus 5: 86.2 (#8)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | 98.9% |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1531 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 85.6% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 73.2% |
| ProofBench | — | 99% |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge Claude Opus 5 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Claude Opus 5: 66.8 (#9)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | 93.9% |
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | 1557 |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 59.9% |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | — |
| MMLU | 73.8% | — |
Multimodal Claude Opus 5 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), Claude Opus 5: 50.8 (#8)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 950 | 1319 |
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | — | 30.4% |
| Furniture Assembly | — | 60.8% |
| LMArena Document | — | 1516 |
| ScienceQA | 72% | — |
Multilingual Claude Opus 5 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Claude Opus 5: 58.8 (#4)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | 1501 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | 1574 |
| LMArena French | 1195 | 1519 |
| LMArena German | 1174 | 1524 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | 1516 |
| LMArena Korean | 1109 | 1521 |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | 1507 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1166 | 1519 |
Instruction Following Claude Opus 5 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#7)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1173 | 1517 |
Long Context Claude Opus 5 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Claude Opus 5: 46.5 (#21)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1190 | 1515 |
Writing & Preference Claude Opus 5 leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Claude Opus 5: 79.2 (#1)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude Opus 5 |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1195 | 1507 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | 1491 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | 2133 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | 1499 |
| EQ-Bench 4 | — | 1385 |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Claude Opus 5?
Claude Opus 5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 67.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Haiku or Claude Opus 5 better for coding?
Claude Opus 5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 67.5 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Claude Opus 5 share?
25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 5 has 57.