Claude 3.5 Haiku vs GPT-4.1 Comparison

Comparing Claude 3.5 Haiku and GPT-4.1 across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

4 benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Haiku outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while GPT-4.1 is better at 4 benchmarks (GPQA, SWE-Bench Verified, TAU-bench Airline, TAU-bench Retail).

GPT-4.1 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Claude 3.5 Haiku costs less

For input processing, Claude 3.5 Haiku ($0.80/1M tokens) is 2.5x cheaper than GPT-4.1 ($2.00/1M tokens).

For output processing, Claude 3.5 Haiku ($4.00/1M tokens) is 2.0x cheaper than GPT-4.1 ($8.00/1M tokens).

In conclusion, GPT-4.1 is more expensive than Claude 3.5 Haiku.*

* Using a 3:1 ratio of input to output tokens

Lowest available price from all providers

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Claude 3.5 Haiku

Input tokens$0.80

Output tokens$4.00

Best providerAWS Bedrock

GPT-4.1

Input tokens$2.00

Output tokens$8.00

Best providerOpenAI

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

GPT-4.1 accepts 1,047,576 input tokens compared to Claude 3.5 Haiku's 200,000 tokens. Claude 3.5 Haiku can generate longer responses up to 200,000 tokens, while GPT-4.1 is limited to 32,768 tokens.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

GPT-4.1

Input1,047,576 tokens

Output32,768 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

GPT-4.1 supports multimodal inputs, whereas Claude 3.5 Haiku does not.

GPT-4.1 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Text

Images

Audio

Video

GPT-4.1

Text

Images

Audio

Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Both models are licensed under proprietary licenses.

Both models have usage restrictions defined by their respective organizations.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

GPT-4.1

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.5 Haiku was released on 2024-10-22, while GPT-4.1 was released on 2025-04-14.

GPT-4.1 is 6 months newer than Claude 3.5 Haiku.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Oct 22, 2024

1.4 years ago

GPT-4.1

Apr 14, 2025

11 months ago

5mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

GPT-4.1 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-06-01, while Claude 3.5 Haiku's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm GPT-4.1's training data extends to 2024-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Claude 3.5 Haiku's cutoff date.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

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GPT-4.1

Jun 2024

Provider Availability

Claude 3.5 Haiku is available from Bedrock, Google, Anthropic. GPT-4.1 is available from OpenAI. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.