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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.

Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$1.00 / M
— / M
Output price
$5.00 / M
— / M
Context window
200,000
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Individual benchmarks

12 reported for Claude Haiku 4.5 · 0 for Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

No common benchmarks found

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).

Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5
Input200,000 tokens
Output64,000 tokens
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Sun Sep 20 2026 • llm-stats.com

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

Text
Images
Audio
Video

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Text
Images
Audio
Video

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.

Claude Haiku 4.5

Proprietary

Closed source

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

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.

Claude Haiku 4.5

Oct 15, 2025

11 months ago

1mo newer
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

Sep 10, 2025

1.0 years 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.

Claude Haiku 4.5

Feb 2025

Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base

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Outputs Comparison

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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.

Claude Haiku 4.5
✓ Preferred
Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base.

Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base?

Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base (Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team) 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 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base 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%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base?

Claude Haiku 4.5 supports 200K tokens and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base 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 Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base?

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 Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is developed by Anthropic and Qwen3-Next-80B-A3B-Base is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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