Claude 3.5 Haiku vs GPT-4o mini

Comparing Claude 3.5 Haiku by Anthropic and GPT-4o mini by OpenAI across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Claude 3.5 Haiku shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks. GPT-4o mini is 6.1x cheaper per token.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

6 benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Haiku outperforms in 4 benchmarks (DROP, GPQA, HumanEval, SWE-Bench Verified), while GPT-4o mini is better at 2 benchmarks (MATH, MGSM).

Claude 3.5 Haiku shows notably better performance in the majority of benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

GPT-4o mini costs less

For input processing, Claude 3.5 Haiku ($0.80/1M tokens) is 5.3x more expensive than GPT-4o mini ($0.15/1M tokens).

For output processing, Claude 3.5 Haiku ($4.00/1M tokens) is 6.7x more expensive than GPT-4o mini ($0.60/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Claude 3.5 Haiku is more expensive than GPT-4o mini.*

* 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-4o mini

Input tokens$0.15

Output tokens$0.60

Best providerAzure

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Claude 3.5 Haiku accepts 200,000 input tokens compared to GPT-4o mini's 128,000 tokens. Claude 3.5 Haiku can generate longer responses up to 200,000 tokens, while GPT-4o mini is limited to 16,384 tokens.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

GPT-4o mini

Input128,000 tokens

Output16,384 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

GPT-4o mini supports multimodal inputs, whereas Claude 3.5 Haiku does not.

GPT-4o mini 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-4o mini

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-4o mini

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.5 Haiku was released on 2024-10-22, while GPT-4o mini was released on 2024-07-18.

Claude 3.5 Haiku is 3 months newer than GPT-4o mini.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Oct 22, 2024

1.4 years ago

3mo newer

GPT-4o mini

Jul 18, 2024

1.7 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

GPT-4o mini has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2023-10-01, while Claude 3.5 Haiku's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm GPT-4o mini's training data extends to 2023-10-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Claude 3.5 Haiku's cutoff date.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

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GPT-4o mini

Oct 2023

Provider Availability

Claude 3.5 Haiku is available from Bedrock, Google, Anthropic. GPT-4o mini is available from Azure. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.