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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs LFM2.5-VL-3B

Comparing Claude Haiku 4.5 and LFM2.5-VL-3B across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.

Anthropic · Liquid AI · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Haiku 4.5 and LFM2.5-VL-3B trade strengths across price, capabilities, and technical limits. The better choice depends on the workload.

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

Choose Claude Haiku 4.5

  • you want predictable pricing at $1.00/M input and $5.00/M output

Choose LFM2.5-VL-3B

  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Aug 2026
  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
LFM2.5-VL-3B
Liquid AI
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$1.00 / M
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Output price
$5.00 / M
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Context window
200,000
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Released
Oct 2025
Aug 2026
License
Proprietary
LFM Open License v1.0

Performance Benchmarks

Comparative analysis across standard metrics

No common benchmarks found

Claude Haiku 4.5 and LFM2.5-VL-3Bdon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.

Arena Performance

Playground indexes and blind preference scores

Context Window

Maximum input and output token capacity

Only Claude Haiku 4.5 specifies input context (200,000 tokens). Only Claude Haiku 4.5 specifies output context (64,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5
Input200,000 tokens
Output64,000 tokens
Liquid AI
LFM2.5-VL-3B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Mon Aug 24 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input Capabilities

Supported data types and modalities

Both Claude Haiku 4.5 and LFM2.5-VL-3B support multimodal inputs.

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

Claude Haiku 4.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

LFM2.5-VL-3B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Haiku 4.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while LFM2.5-VL-3B uses LFM Open License v1.0.

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

Claude Haiku 4.5

Proprietary

Closed source

LFM2.5-VL-3B

LFM Open License v1.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Haiku 4.5 was released on 2025-10-15, while LFM2.5-VL-3B was released on 2026-08-12.

LFM2.5-VL-3B is 10 months newer than Claude Haiku 4.5.

Claude Haiku 4.5

Oct 15, 2025

10 months ago

LFM2.5-VL-3B

Aug 12, 2026

1 weeks ago

10mo newer

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Haiku 4.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2025-02-01, while LFM2.5-VL-3B's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Claude Haiku 4.5's training data extends to 2025-02-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without LFM2.5-VL-3B's cutoff date.

Claude Haiku 4.5

Feb 2025

LFM2.5-VL-3B

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Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Haiku 4.5 and LFM2.5-VL-3B side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Haiku 4.5
✓ Preferred
LFM2.5-VL-3B
Open in Playground

FAQ

Common questions about Claude Haiku 4.5 vs LFM2.5-VL-3B.

Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or LFM2.5-VL-3B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) and LFM2.5-VL-3B (Liquid AI) each have strengths in different areas. Compare their benchmark scores, pricing, context windows, and capabilities above to determine which fits your needs.

How does Claude Haiku 4.5 compare to LFM2.5-VL-3B in benchmarks?

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores Tau2 Retail: 83.2%, MMMLU: 83.0%, Tau2 Telecom: 83.0%, AIME 2025: 80.7%, SWE-Bench Verified: 73.3%. LFM2.5-VL-3B scores DocVQA: 91.1%, POPE: 88.7%, RefCOCO-avg: 87.9%, TextVQA: 84.3%, OCRBench: 84.2%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Haiku 4.5 and LFM2.5-VL-3B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 supports 200K tokens and LFM2.5-VL-3B 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 Haiku 4.5 and LFM2.5-VL-3B?

Key differences include licensing (Proprietary vs LFM Open License v1.0). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Haiku 4.5 and LFM2.5-VL-3B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is developed by Anthropic and LFM2.5-VL-3B is developed by Liquid AI.

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