Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku
Analysis Summary
Anthropic's Claude 3 Haiku is a text and image model released in March 2024. The supplied data lists a 200K context window, tool use, function calling, and vision, along with low input pricing. Its measured intelligence index is 5.6, so the evidence here supports a more bounded role than complex reasoning or high-stakes analysis.
Haiku is a practical candidate for high-volume content assistance, image-aware triage, and structured automation where response quality can be checked. The long context may help with document intake, though no long-context or instruction-following benchmark is provided to verify that advantage. It can be worth piloting for routine workloads where cost and multimodal access matter more than frontier capability. Validate customer-facing outputs and tool execution before relying on it without review.
Assessed September 23, 2026
Editorial notes
Claude 3 Haiku pairs a 200K context window with vision, tool use, and function calling at low listed input pricing, though measured intelligence is limited.
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DFO Verdict
Claude 3 Haiku pairs a 200K context window with vision, tool use, and function calling at low listed input pricing, though measured intelligence is limited.
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis data refreshed Sep 30, 2026. Arena ratings from the Sep 25, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control.
Artificial Analysis has not published coding or agentic results for Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku yet. Until it does, the model sits below tested models on the Coding and AI Agents lists.
How Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku compares
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku ranks #363 of 431 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 200K-token context window is larger than 57% of the models we list. At $0.25 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 47% 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.
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.25 | $0.000250 |
| Output | $1.25 | $0.001250 |
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Frequently asked questions about Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku
How much does Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku cost?
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.25 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku?
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku has a context window of 200,000 tokens (200K).
What can Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku do?
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku?
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku is developed by Anthropic and was released on March 13, 2024.