Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B: 67.1% average across four Vision Evals tasks (#26 of 65 models). We have not run Claude Haiku 4.5 through Roboflow's Vision Evals, so there is no head-to-head score. Run both on your own image below.
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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3.6 27B Comparison Table
Evals updated October 26, 2026Pricing updated November 8, 2026
| Property | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | Qwen |
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Oct 2025 | Apr 2026 |
| Context Window | 200K | 262K |
| Parameters | Unknown | 27B |
| License | Proprietary | Apache 2.0 |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | free for commercial use |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $1.00 | $0.320 |
| Output $/1M | $5.00 | $3.20 |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Classification | Demo | Supported |
| Object Detection | Demo | Not listed |
| Video Classification | Not listed | Supported |
| Model Features | ||
Both support 3 more features | ||
Vision Evalsground-truth scores across 5 vision tasks | ||
| Overall | Not evaluated | 67.1%* |
| Quantizationsself-hosted | ||
| Avg cost / sample | – | $0.0021 |
| Avg speed / sample | – | 42.09s |
| By task | ||
| Object Detection | – | 59.7% ±0.9, Mean of 3 runs, range 59.0 to 60.8 |
| Counting | – | 67.1% ±4.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 62.2 to 71.6 |
| Identification | – | 82.3% ±1.6, Mean of 3 runs, range 81.3 to 84.4 |
| OCR | – | – |
| by category | ||
| Reasoning | – | 59.2% ±1.7, Mean of 3 runs, range 57.6 to 60.9 |
Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3.6 27B: Overview
Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s lightweight model in the Claude 4.5 series, released in October 2025 under a proprietary license. Designed for speed and cost efficiency, it delivers near-frontier performance while maintaining Anthropic’s AI Safety Level 2 standard. Haiku 4.5 supports both text and multimodal (text and image) inputs, integrates tool use and extended reasoning, and features a 200,000 token context window, making it adept at handling long or complex workflows. Haiku 4.5 is ideal for developers and researchers seeking rapid, cost-effective model calls for analysis, coding, or multimodal understanding.
Qwen3.6-27B is a dense 27-billion-parameter multimodal language model developed by Alibaba's Qwen team and released on April 22, 2026. It combines a causal language model with an integrated vision encoder, supporting text, image, and video inputs natively. The architecture employs a hybrid attention design that interleaves Gated DeltaNet linear attention blocks with standard Gated Attention layers across 64 transformer layers with a hidden dimension of 5,120. Unlike Mixture-of-Experts variants in the Qwen3.6 family, all 27 billion parameters are active on every inference pass, simplifying deployment and quantization. The model supports a native context window of 262,144 tokens, extensible to approximately 1,010,000 tokens via YaRN scaling. It is released under the Apache 2.0 license with open weights available on Hugging Face and ModelScope.
The model introduces two notable capabilities relative to prior Qwen releases: enhanced agentic coding support covering frontend workflows and repository-level reasoning, and a Thinking Preservation mechanism that retains chain-of-thought reasoning context across multi-turn conversation history to reduce redundant token generation in iterative agent sessions. It supports both a thinking mode for multi-step reasoning and a non-thinking mode for faster responses within a single model. Vision capabilities include chart understanding (CharXiv RQ: 78.4), OCR (CC-OCR: 81.2), and video understanding (VideoMME with subtitles: 87.7).
Frequently Asked Questions
Claude Haiku 4.5 is released under Proprietary, while Qwen3.6 27B uses Apache 2.0. In practice: Claude Haiku 4.5: commercial use per vendor terms; Qwen3.6 27B: free for commercial use. Licensing often matters more than raw accuracy for commercial deployments, so check the terms against how you plan to ship.
Yes. The comparison demo on this page runs both models on the same image side by side for image captioning and open prompts in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.