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Claude Haiku 5.5 vs MedGemma 4B IT

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 49.9 to -4.8.

Anthropic · Google · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 49.9 to -4.8, ranking #20 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 49.9 and ranks #20 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Oct 2026

Choose MedGemma 4B IT

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

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic
MedGemma 4B IT
Google
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
49.9
#20
-4.8
#374
Reasoning
47.5
#25
-5.2
#370
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

2 shared
Index
Claude Haiku 5.5
MedGemma 4B IT
Vision
30.5#38
-6.8#224
Multimodal
31.3#33
-5.5#183
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

36 reported for Claude Haiku 5.5 · 7 for MedGemma 4B IT

No common benchmarks found

Claude Haiku 5.5 and MedGemma 4B ITdon'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
Google
MedGemma 4B IT
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Sun Oct 25 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Both Claude Haiku 5.5 and MedGemma 4B IT support multimodal inputs.

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

Claude Haiku 5.5

Text
Images
Audio
Video

MedGemma 4B IT

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Haiku 5.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while MedGemma 4B IT uses Health AI Developer Foundations terms of use.

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

Claude Haiku 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

MedGemma 4B IT

Health AI Developer Foundations terms of use

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Haiku 5.5 was released on 2026-10-07, while MedGemma 4B IT was released on 2025-05-20.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 17 months newer than MedGemma 4B IT.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Oct 7, 2026

1 weeks ago

1.4yr newer
MedGemma 4B IT

May 20, 2025

1.4 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Haiku 5.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while MedGemma 4B IT'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 MedGemma 4B IT's cutoff date.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Jun 2026

MedGemma 4B IT

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Outputs Comparison

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Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Haiku 5.5 and MedGemma 4B IT side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Haiku 5.5
✓ Preferred
MedGemma 4B IT
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Haiku 5.5 vs MedGemma 4B IT.

Which is better, Claude Haiku 5.5 or MedGemma 4B IT?

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 49.9 to -4.8. Claude Haiku 5.5 is made by Anthropic and MedGemma 4B IT is made by Google. 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 MedGemma 4B IT 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%. MedGemma 4B IT scores MIMIC CXR: 88.9%, DermMCQA: 71.8%, PathMCQA: 69.8%, SlakeVQA: 62.3%, VQA-Rad: 49.9%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Haiku 5.5 and MedGemma 4B IT?

Claude Haiku 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and MedGemma 4B IT 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 MedGemma 4B IT?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (49.9 vs -4.8), licensing (Proprietary vs Health AI Developer Foundations terms of use). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Haiku 5.5 and MedGemma 4B IT?

Claude Haiku 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and MedGemma 4B IT is developed by Google.

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