Model Comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Nemotron Nano 9B v2Which is better in 2026?

Nemotron Nano 9B v2 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Verdict: Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Nemotron Nano 9B v2 — which is better?

Claude 3.5 Haiku (by Anthropic) and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 (by NVIDIA) are two of the AI models people compare most. Here is how they stack up on benchmarks, price and capabilities, and which one to pick in 2026.

Claude 3.5 Haiku outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is better at 1 benchmark (GPQA). Nemotron Nano 9B v2 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Choose Claude 3.5 Haiku if…

  • you want predictable pricing at $0.80/M input and $4.00/M output

Choose Nemotron Nano 9B v2 if…

  • you want the strongest raw capability — it leads on 1 of 1 shared benchmarks
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Aug 2025
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

1 benchmarks

Claude 3.5 Haiku outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is better at 1 benchmark (GPQA).

Nemotron Nano 9B v2 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude 3.5 Haiku specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3.5 Haiku specifies output context (200,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku
Input200,000 tokens
Output200,000 tokens
NVIDIA
Nemotron Nano 9B v2
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
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License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3.5 Haiku is licensed under a proprietary license, while Nemotron Nano 9B v2 uses NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement .

License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3.5 Haiku was released on 2024-10-22, while Nemotron Nano 9B v2 was released on 2025-08-18.

Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is 10 months newer than Claude 3.5 Haiku.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Oct 22, 2024

1.7 years ago

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Aug 18, 2025

11 months ago

10mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Nemotron Nano 9B v2 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2024-09-01, while Claude 3.5 Haiku's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Nemotron Nano 9B v2's training data extends to 2024-09-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without Claude 3.5 Haiku's cutoff date.

Claude 3.5 Haiku

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Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Sep 2024

Outputs Comparison

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Key Takeaways

Anthropic
Larger context window (200,000 tokens)
NVIDIA
Has open weights
Higher GPQA score (64.0% vs 41.6%)

Detailed Comparison

Interactive Arena

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude 3.5 Haiku and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude 3.5 Haiku
✓ Preferred
Nemotron Nano 9B v2
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Feature
Anthropic
Claude 3.5 Haiku
NVIDIA
Nemotron Nano 9B v2

FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Nemotron Nano 9B v2.

Which is better, Claude 3.5 Haiku or Nemotron Nano 9B v2?

Nemotron Nano 9B v2 significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Claude 3.5 Haiku is made by Anthropic and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is made by NVIDIA. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.

How does Claude 3.5 Haiku compare to Nemotron Nano 9B v2 in benchmarks?

Claude 3.5 Haiku scores HumanEval: 88.1%, MGSM: 85.6%, DROP: 83.1%, MATH: 69.4%, MMLU-Pro: 65.0%. Nemotron Nano 9B v2 scores MATH-500: 97.8%, IFEval: 90.3%, AIME 2025: 72.1%, LiveCodeBench: 71.1%, BFCL_v3_MultiTurn: 66.9%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude 3.5 Haiku and Nemotron Nano 9B v2?

Claude 3.5 Haiku supports 200K tokens and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 supports an unknown number of tokens. A larger context window lets you process longer documents, conversations, or codebases in a single request.

What are the main differences between Claude 3.5 Haiku and Nemotron Nano 9B v2?

Key differences include licensing (Proprietary vs NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement ). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3.5 Haiku and Nemotron Nano 9B v2?

Claude 3.5 Haiku is developed by Anthropic and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is developed by NVIDIA.

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