Claude 3 Opus vs Claude 3 Haiku Comparison

Comparing Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3 Haiku across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

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Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

10 benchmarks

Claude 3 Opus outperforms in 10 benchmarks (ARC-C, BIG-Bench Hard, DROP, GPQA, GSM8k, HellaSwag, HumanEval, MATH, MGSM, MMLU), while Claude 3 Haiku is better at 0 benchmarks.

Claude 3 Opus significantly outperforms across most benchmarks.

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Arena Performance

Human preference votes

Pricing Analysis

Price comparison per million tokens

Claude 3 Haiku costs less

For input processing, Claude 3 Opus ($15.00/1M tokens) is 60.0x more expensive than Claude 3 Haiku ($0.25/1M tokens).

For output processing, Claude 3 Opus ($75.00/1M tokens) is 60.0x more expensive than Claude 3 Haiku ($1.25/1M tokens).

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

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

Lowest available price from all providers

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Claude 3 Opus

Input tokens$15.00

Output tokens$75.00

Best providerAnthropic

Claude 3 Haiku

Input tokens$0.25

Output tokens$1.25

Best providerAnthropic

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Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Both models have the same input context window of 200,000 tokens. Both models can generate responses up to 200,000 tokens.

Claude 3 Opus

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

Claude 3 Haiku

Input200,000 tokens

Output200,000 tokens

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Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Both Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3 Haiku support multimodal inputs.

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

Claude 3 Opus

Text

Images

Audio

Video

Claude 3 Haiku

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 Opus

Proprietary

Closed source

Claude 3 Haiku

Proprietary

Closed source

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude 3 Opus was released on 2024-02-29, while Claude 3 Haiku was released on 2024-03-13.

Claude 3 Haiku is 0 month newer than Claude 3 Opus.

Claude 3 Opus

Feb 29, 2024

2.0 years ago

Claude 3 Haiku

Mar 13, 2024

2.0 years ago

1w 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 Opus is available from Anthropic, Bedrock, Google. Claude 3 Haiku is available from Anthropic, Bedrock, Google. The availability of providers can affect quality of the model and reliability.