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Claude Haiku 5.5 vs MiniCPM-SALA

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 50.1 to 14.4.

Anthropic · OpenBMB · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 50.1 to 14.4, 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 50.1 and ranks #18 on LLM Stats
  • your work emphasizes reasoning — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Oct 2026

Choose MiniCPM-SALA

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

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Core performance indexes
50.1
#18
14.4
#252
47.4
#25
15.7
#237
40.0
#12
20.9
#102
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
MiniCPM-SALA
25.7#110
14.2#226
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

36 reported for Claude Haiku 5.5 · 24 for MiniCPM-SALA

No common benchmarks found

Claude Haiku 5.5 and MiniCPM-SALAdon'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
OpenBMB
MiniCPM-SALA
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Wed Oct 14 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Claude Haiku 5.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas MiniCPM-SALA 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

MiniCPM-SALA

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Haiku 5.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while MiniCPM-SALA uses Apache 2.0.

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

Claude Haiku 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

MiniCPM-SALA

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Haiku 5.5 was released on 2026-10-07, while MiniCPM-SALA was released on 2026-02-11.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 8 months newer than MiniCPM-SALA.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Oct 7, 2026

6 days ago

7mo newer
MiniCPM-SALA

Feb 11, 2026

8 months ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Haiku 5.5 has a documented knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while MiniCPM-SALA'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 MiniCPM-SALA's cutoff date.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Jun 2026

MiniCPM-SALA

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Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Haiku 5.5 and MiniCPM-SALA side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Haiku 5.5
✓ Preferred
MiniCPM-SALA
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Haiku 5.5 vs MiniCPM-SALA.

Which is better, Claude Haiku 5.5 or MiniCPM-SALA?

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 50.1 to 14.4. Claude Haiku 5.5 is made by Anthropic and MiniCPM-SALA is made by OpenBMB. 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 MiniCPM-SALA 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%. MiniCPM-SALA scores HumanEval: 95.1%, RULER 64k: 92.7%, RULER 128k: 89.4%, MBPP: 89.1%, RULER 512K: 87.1%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Haiku 5.5 and MiniCPM-SALA?

Claude Haiku 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and MiniCPM-SALA 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 MiniCPM-SALA?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (50.1 vs 14.4), 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 5.5 and MiniCPM-SALA?

Claude Haiku 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and MiniCPM-SALA is developed by OpenBMB.