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Claude 3 Haiku vs IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

Claude 3 Haiku significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Anthropic · IBM · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude 3 Haiku outperforms in 4 benchmarks (BIG-Bench Hard, DROP, GSM8k, MMLU), while IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview is better at 1 benchmark (HumanEval). Claude 3 Haiku significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Based on current benchmark, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude 3 Haiku

  • you want the strongest raw capability — it leads on 4 of 5 shared benchmarks

Choose IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped May 2025
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude 3 Haiku
Anthropic
IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview
IBM
Benchmark wins
4 of 5
1 of 5
Input price
$0.25 / M
— / M
Output price
$1.25 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
—
Released
Mar 2024
May 2025
License
Proprietary
Apache 2.0

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

5 benchmarks

Claude 3 Haiku outperforms in 4 benchmarks (BIG-Bench Hard, DROP, GSM8k, MMLU), while IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview is better at 1 benchmark (HumanEval).

Claude 3 Haiku significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

Thu Aug 27 2026 • llm-stats.com

Arena Performance

Playground indexes and blind preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude 3 Haiku specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude 3 Haiku specifies output context (200,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude 3 Haiku
Input200,000 tokens
Output200,000 tokens
IBM
IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Thu Aug 27 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Claude 3 Haiku supports multimodal inputs, whereas IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview does not.

Claude 3 Haiku can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude 3 Haiku

Text
Images
Audio
Video

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude 3 Haiku is licensed under a proprietary license, while IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview uses Apache 2.0.

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

Claude 3 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Haiku was released on 2024-03-13, while IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview was released on 2025-05-02.

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview is 14 months newer than Claude 3 Haiku.

Claude 3 Haiku

Mar 13, 2024

2.5 years ago

IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview

May 2, 2025

1.3 years ago

1.1yr newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Neither model specifies a knowledge cutoff date.

Unable to compare the recency of their training data.

No cutoff dates available

Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude 3 Haiku and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude 3 Haiku
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IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude 3 Haiku vs IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview.

Which is better, Claude 3 Haiku or IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?

Claude 3 Haiku significantly outperforms across most benchmarks. Claude 3 Haiku is made by Anthropic and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview is made by IBM. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their benchmark scores, pricing, and capabilities above.

How does Claude 3 Haiku compare to IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview in benchmarks?

Claude 3 Haiku scores ARC-C: 89.2%, GSM8k: 88.9%, HellaSwag: 85.9%, DROP: 78.4%, HumanEval: 75.9%. IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview scores AttaQ: 86.1%, HumanEval: 82.4%, HumanEval+: 78.3%, GSM8k: 70.1%, IFEval: 63.0%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude 3 Haiku and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?

Claude 3 Haiku supports 200K tokens and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview 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 Haiku and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?

Key differences include multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs Apache 2.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude 3 Haiku and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview?

Claude 3 Haiku is developed by Anthropic and IBM Granite 4.0 Tiny Preview is developed by IBM.

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