Claude 3 Haiku vs Nova Lite Comparison

Comparing Claude 3 Haiku and Nova Lite across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

7 benchmarks

Claude 3 Haiku outperforms in 0 benchmarks, while Nova Lite is better at 7 benchmarks (ARC-C, DROP, GPQA, GSM8k, HumanEval, MATH, MMLU).

Nova Lite significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Nova Lite costs less

For input processing, Claude 3 Haiku ($0.25/1M tokens) is 4.2x more expensive than Nova Lite ($0.06/1M tokens).

For output processing, Claude 3 Haiku ($1.25/1M tokens) is 5.2x more expensive than Nova Lite ($0.24/1M tokens).

In conclusion, Claude 3 Haiku is more expensive than Nova Lite.*

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

Lowest available price from all providers

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Claude 3 Haiku

Input tokens$0.25

Output tokens$1.25

Best providerAnthropic

Nova Lite

Input tokens$0.06

Output tokens$0.24

Best providerAWS Bedrock

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Nova Lite accepts 300,000 input tokens compared to Claude 3 Haiku's 200,000 tokens. Claude 3 Haiku can generate longer responses up to 200,000 tokens, while Nova Lite is limited to 2,048 tokens.

Claude 3 Haiku

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

Nova Lite

Input300,000 tokens

Output2,048 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Both Claude 3 Haiku and Nova Lite support multimodal inputs.

They are both capable of processing various types of data, offering versatility in application.

Claude 3 Haiku

Text

Images

Audio

Video

Nova Lite

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 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

Nova Lite

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Haiku was released on 2024-03-13, while Nova Lite was released on 2024-11-20.

Nova Lite is 8 months newer than Claude 3 Haiku.

Claude 3 Haiku

Mar 13, 2024

2.0 years ago

Nova Lite

Nov 20, 2024

1.3 years ago

8mo 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

Provider Availability

Claude 3 Haiku is available from Anthropic, Bedrock, Google. Nova Lite is available from Bedrock. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.