Claude 3 Haiku vs GPT-5 Nano
Compare Claude 3 Haiku and GPT-5 Nano side-by-side. See how these vision models stack up in Open Prompt, OCR, Image Captioning, Object Detection, and Classification.
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Claude 3 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 Haiku vs GPT-5 Nano Comparison Table
Evals updated August 6, 2026Pricing updated August 10, 2026
| Property | Claude 3 Haiku | GPT-5 Nano |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Category | closed | closed |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Mar 2024 | Aug 2025 |
| Context Window | 200K | 400K |
| Parameters | ||
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $0.050 | |
| Output $/1M | $0.400 | |
| 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 Haiku vs GPT-5 Nano: Overview
Claude 3 Haiku is a large language model developed by Anthropic and released in March 2024 as part of the Claude 3 family, alongside Claude 3 Sonnet and Claude 3 Opus. It is designed to be the fastest and most cost-efficient model in the series, optimized for high-throughput applications.
Like the other Claude 3 models, Haiku is multimodal, able to process both text and image inputs while generating text outputs. It supports a context window of up to 200,000 tokens, with Anthropic noting that the Claude 3 models are technically capable of handling inputs exceeding one million tokens in special cases.
Haiku is positioned as a model well-suited for scenarios that demand speed and scalability at lower cost, such as customer support, summarization, and other tasks where rapid responses are prioritized. Compared to the larger Claude 3 Sonnet and Opus, Haiku provides lower latency and higher efficiency, while the larger models offer stronger reasoning and depth of analysis.
GPT-5 Nano, released by OpenAI on August 7, 2025, is the smallest and most cost-efficient model in the GPT-5 family. Like its larger counterparts, it is multimodal—accepting text and images, supporting tool use, structured outputs, and reasoning—but it is optimized for speed, low latency, and affordability. It features input and output token limits of roughly 272K and 128K tokens respectively, enabling large-context processing even at its compact scale. Its knowledge cutoff is around May 2024, slightly earlier than the full GPT-5 model.
GPT-5 Nano is well-suited for high-volume or cost-sensitive deployments such as mobile apps, embedded AI systems, or rapid-response APIs. While it offers less depth on complex reasoning and coding tasks compared to GPT-5 Mini or Pro, it retains core multimodal and agentic capabilities, making it an attractive option where efficiency and scale matter more than maximum performance.