Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Claude Sonnet 4.5
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Claude 3.5 Haiku is deprecated and can no longer be run. Details and evals are still available on its model page.
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Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Claude Sonnet 4.5 Comparison Table
Evals updated August 14, 2026Pricing updated August 16, 2026
| Property | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Oct 2024 | Sep 2025 |
| Context Window | 200K | 200K |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $3.00 | |
| Output $/1M | $15.00 | |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Captioning | Demo | |
| Chart Question Answering | ||
| Classification | Demo | |
| Document Question Answering | ||
| Image Tagging | ||
| Multi-Label Classification | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | |
| OCR | Demo | |
| Vision Language | ||
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | ||
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | ||
| Multimodal Vision | ||
Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Claude Sonnet 4.5: Overview
Claude 3.5 Haiku, released by Anthropic in October 2024, is the fastest member of the Claude 3.5 family, optimized for low-latency, high-throughput applications. It is a multimodal model that handles both text and image inputs and supports a large ~200,000-token context window. Haiku is designed to balance efficiency with intelligence, outperforming even Claude 3 Opus on several reasoning benchmarks while maintaining its hallmark speed.
Typical applications include real-time chatbots, code completion, large-scale data extraction, and content moderation—scenarios where rapid response and scalability are essential.
Claude Sonnet 4.5, released by Anthropic in September 2025, is the company’s most advanced Sonnet-series model, built for high-performance reasoning, coding, and long-horizon agentic workflows. It is a multimodal system that accepts both text and images, with a 200,000-token context window designed for handling large documents and extended interactions. Anthropic highlights its improvements in reliability, reduced sycophancy, and alignment, making it suitable for sustained enterprise use.
The model delivers strong results in coding and autonomous workflows, achieving 61.4% on the OSWorld benchmark and leading performance on SWE-bench Verified. It introduces infrastructure features such as a memory tool (beta), checkpointing for Claude Code, parallel tool use, and tighter integration with VS Code. Compared to Opus, which targets broader reasoning, Sonnet 4.5 is optimized for structured, long-duration tasks. Positioned against leading offerings from OpenAI and Google, it is aimed at enterprise automation, software engineering, and research-intensive applications.