Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Claude Opus 4.6
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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 Opus 4.6 Comparison Table
Evals updated August 6, 2026Pricing updated August 7, 2026
| Property | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Claude Opus 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Oct 2024 | Feb 2026 |
| Context Window | 200K | 1.0M |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $5.00 | |
| Output $/1M | $25.00 | |
| 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 Opus 4.6 : 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 Opus 4.6 is the flagship large language model from Anthropic, released on 2026-02-05 for advanced reasoning, complex coding, and enterprise agent workflows. It supports text and image inputs via API, offers a 200K-token standard context window with a 1M-token beta option, and enables outputs up to 128K tokens, with adaptive reasoning and context compaction for sustained tasks.
As of 2026-02-17, Anthropic also released Claude Sonnet 4.6, extending the 1M-token context window to a broader tier. Opus remains positioned for maximum depth and benchmark performance, while Sonnet 4.6 brings long-context capability to more cost- and latency-sensitive production use cases.