Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Grok-3 Mini Comparison

Comparing Claude 3.5 Haiku and Grok-3 Mini across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

1 benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Haiku outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Grok-3 Mini is better at 1 benchmark (GPQA).

Grok-3 Mini significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Grok-3 Mini costs less

For input processing, Claude 3.5 Haiku ($0.80/1M tokens) is 2.7x more expensive than Grok-3 Mini ($0.30/1M tokens).

For output processing, Claude 3.5 Haiku ($4.00/1M tokens) is 8.0x more expensive than Grok-3 Mini ($0.50/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Claude 3.5 Haiku is more expensive than Grok-3 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

Grok-3 Mini

Input tokens$0.30

Output tokens$0.50

Best providerxAI

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Claude 3.5 Haiku accepts 200,000 input tokens compared to Grok-3 Mini's 128,000 tokens. Claude 3.5 Haiku can generate longer responses up to 200,000 tokens, while Grok-3 Mini is limited to 8,000 tokens.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

Grok-3 Mini

Input128,000 tokens

Output8,000 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Grok-3 Mini supports multimodal inputs, whereas Claude 3.5 Haiku does not.

Grok-3 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

Grok-3 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

Grok-3 Mini

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.5 Haiku was released on 2024-10-22, while Grok-3 Mini was released on 2025-02-17.

Grok-3 Mini is 4 months newer than Claude 3.5 Haiku.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Oct 22, 2024

1.4 years ago

Grok-3 Mini

Feb 17, 2025

1.1 years ago

3mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Grok-3 Mini has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-11-17, while Claude 3.5 Haiku's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Grok-3 Mini's training data extends to 2024-11-17, but cannot make a direct comparison without Claude 3.5 Haiku's cutoff date.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

—

Grok-3 Mini

Nov 2024

Provider Availability

Claude 3.5 Haiku is available from Bedrock, Google, Anthropic. Grok-3 Mini is available from xAI. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.