Claude Haiku 4.5 vs SAM 3
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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs SAM 3 Comparison Table
Evals updated October 13, 2026Pricing updated October 16, 2026
| Property | Claude Haiku 4.5 | SAM 3 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization | Anthropic | Meta |
| Category | closed | open |
| Modality | multimodal | multimodal |
| Release Date | Oct 2025 | Nov 2025 |
| Context Window | 200K | — |
| Parameters | Unknown | Unknown |
| License | Proprietary | Custom |
| Commercial use | commercial use per vendor terms | See license terms |
| Pricing per 1M tokens | ||
| Input $/1M | $1.00 | No published price |
| Output $/1M | $5.00 | No published price |
| Vision Tasks | ||
| Object Detection | Demo | Demo |
| Captioning | Demo | Not listed |
| Chart Question Answering | Supported | Not listed |
| Classification | Demo | Not listed |
| Document Question Answering | Supported | Not listed |
| Image Tagging | Supported | Not listed |
| Instance Segmentation | Not listed | Supported |
| Multi-Label Classification | Supported | Not listed |
| OCR | Demo | Not listed |
| Open Vocabulary Object Detection | Not listed | Supported |
| Promptable Concept Segmentation | Not listed | Demo |
| Video Object Tracking | Not listed | Supported |
| Vision Language | Supported | Not listed |
| Visual Question Answering | Demo | Not listed |
| Zero Shot Segmentation | Not listed | Supported |
| Model Features | ||
| Foundation Vision | Supported | Supported |
| Multimodal Vision | Supported | Supported |
| LLMs with Vision Capabilities | Supported | Not listed |
| Zero-shot Detection | Not listed | Supported |
Claude Haiku 4.5 vs SAM 3: 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. Though the parameter count remains undisclosed, it achieves about 73.3% on SWE-bench Verified, reflecting strong coding and reasoning ability. Haiku 4.5 is ideal for developers and researchers seeking rapid, cost-effective model calls for analysis, coding, or multimodal understanding.
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.
Frequently Asked Questions
Claude Haiku 4.5 is released under Proprietary, while SAM 3 uses Custom. In practice: Claude Haiku 4.5 — commercial use per vendor terms. 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 object detection in the free Roboflow Playground. You can try it instantly, and a free account unlocks unlimited runs.
