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Claude Haiku 5.5 vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 50.3 to 7.0.

Anthropic · DeepSeek · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 50.3 to 7.0, ranking #18 overall.

Based on current LLM Stats indexes, shared benchmarks, pricing, and model metadata for 2026.

Choose Claude Haiku 5.5

  • overall performance matters — it scores 50.3 and ranks #18 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Oct 2026

Choose DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

  • you need open weights you can self-host or fine-tune

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
DeepSeek
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
50.3
#18
7.0
#304
Reasoning
47.4
#26
7.3
#296
Coding
40.7
#12
2.5
#237
Cost, coverage & limits
Benchmark wins
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Input price
$0.10 / M
— / M
Output price
$0.50 / M
— / M
Context window
1,000,000
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Capability indexes

Additional strengths measured across groups of related public benchmarks

1 shared
Index
Claude Haiku 5.5
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
Math
25.7#110
10.8#254
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

36 reported for Claude Haiku 5.5 · 4 for DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

No common benchmarks found

Claude Haiku 5.5 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8Bdon'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 5.5 specifies input context (1,000,000 tokens). Only Claude Haiku 5.5 specifies output context (128,000 tokens).

Anthropic
Claude Haiku 5.5
Input1,000,000 tokens
Output128,000 tokens
DeepSeek
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Wed Oct 07 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Claude Haiku 5.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B does not.

Claude Haiku 5.5 can handle both text and other forms of data like images, making it suitable for multimodal applications.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Haiku 5.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B uses MIT.

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

Claude Haiku 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

MIT

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Haiku 5.5 was released on 2026-10-07, while DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B was released on 2025-01-20.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 21 months newer than DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Oct 7, 2026

0 days ago

1.7yr newer
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

Jan 20, 2025

1.7 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Haiku 5.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B's cutoff date is not specified.

We can confirm Claude Haiku 5.5's training data extends to 2026-06-01, but cannot make a direct comparison without DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B's cutoff date.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Jun 2026

DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B

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Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Haiku 5.5 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Haiku 5.5 vs DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B.

Which is better, Claude Haiku 5.5 or DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B?

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 50.3 to 7.0. Claude Haiku 5.5 is made by Anthropic and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is made by DeepSeek. The best choice depends on your use case — compare their capability indexes, individual benchmarks, pricing, and limits above.

How does Claude Haiku 5.5 compare to DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B in benchmarks?

Claude Haiku 5.5 scores Global-MMLU: 87.8%, MILU: 87.6%, BenchCAD (with Python tool): 87.0%, Chartography: 86.2%, SWE-bench Multilingual: 83.7%. DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B scores MATH-500: 89.1%, AIME 2024: 80.0%, GPQA: 49.0%, LiveCodeBench: 39.6%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Haiku 5.5 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B?

Claude Haiku 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B 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 5.5 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (50.3 vs 7.0), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs MIT). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Haiku 5.5 and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B?

Claude Haiku 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B is developed by DeepSeek.

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