Analysis Summary
Claude 3.5 Haiku is Anthropic's compact Claude model, with text and image input, a 200K context window, and support for tool use and function calling. The supplied intelligence and coding indices are low, so the available measurements do not support treating it as a strong reasoning or coding model. Its listed input and output prices are below those of several premium options in this batch.
For business workflows, the combination of vision and tool calling makes it a candidate for routine automation, image-aware assistance, and structured tasks where a lighter model is sufficient. The large context can accommodate longer briefs, though that does not by itself guarantee reliable long-document analysis. Its measured coding and agentic indices counsel against relying on it for complex autonomous work.
Consider it for lower-cost, bounded tasks where speed and cost matter more than deep reasoning, with evaluation and review before client-facing deployment.
Assessed September 23, 2026
Editorial notes
Claude 3.5 Haiku combines image input, a 200K context window, and tool and function calling at a lower listed price than many premium models; its supplied capability indices are limited.
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DFO Verdict
Claude 3.5 Haiku combines image input, a 200K context window, and tool and function calling at a lower listed price than many premium models; its supplied capability indices are limited.
How Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku compares
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku ranks #267 of 444 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #163 of 210 for coding, #149 of 192 for agentic tasks. Its 200K-token context window is larger than 52% of the models we list. At $0.80 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 30% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Strongest on value. The pulled-in intelligence corner is the trade-off, and if the shape matters more than the price, this is your model.
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| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.80 | $0.000800 |
| Output | $4.00 | $0.004000 |
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Frequently asked questions about Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku
How much does Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku cost?
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku costs $0.80 per million input tokens and $4.00 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku?
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku has a context window of 200,000 tokens (200K).
Is Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku ranks #163 of 210 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku do?
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku?
Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku is developed by Anthropic and was released on November 4, 2024.
Data sourced from the OpenRouter API, Artificial Analysis, the Hugging Face Open LLM Leaderboard and our own internal testing. Scores are editorially curated by our team.
Last updated: September 23, 2026 8:38 pm