Claude 3 Haiku vs SAM 3

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.

Released on November 19th, 2025, Segment Anything 3 (SAM 3) is a zero-shot image segmentation model that “detects, segments, and tracks objects in images and videos based on concept prompts.” This model was developed by Meta as the third model in the Segment Anything series.

Unlike its previous SAM models (Segment Anything and Segment Anything 2), you can provide SAM 3 with the prompt “shipping container” and it will generate precise segmentation masks for all shipping containers in an image. SAM 3 generates segmentation masks that correspond to the location of the objects found with a text prompt.