Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Comparing Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base across benchmarks, pricing, and capabilities.
Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026
Which is better?
Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base trade strengths across price, capabilities, and technical limits. The better choice depends on the workload.
Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.
Choose Claude Haiku 4.5
- you want the most recent training data — it shipped Oct 2025
Choose Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
- you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune
At a glance
The differences that matter most.
Individual benchmarks
12 reported for Claude Haiku 4.5 · 0 for Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Basedon't have any common benchmark datasets to compare. They may have been evaluated on different testing suites.
Human preference
Blind head-to-head votes and playground 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).
Input capabilities
Documented input modalities across available providers
Claude Haiku 4.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base does not.
Claude Haiku 4.5 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.
Claude Haiku 4.5
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
License
Usage and distribution terms
Claude Haiku 4.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base uses Apache 2.0.
License differences may affect how you can use these models in commercial or open-source projects.
Proprietary
Closed source
Apache 2.0
Open weights
Release Timeline
When each model was launched
Claude Haiku 4.5 was released on 2025-10-15, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base was released on 2025-09-10.
Claude Haiku 4.5 is 1 month newer than Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base.
Oct 15, 2025
10 months ago
1mo newerSep 10, 2025
11 months ago
Knowledge Cutoff
When training data ends
Claude Haiku 4.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2025-02-01, while Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base'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 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base's cutoff date.
Feb 2025
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Outputs Comparison
Judge for yourself.
Run your own prompts against Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.
FAQ
Common questions about Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base.