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Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 50.1 to 18.4.

Anthropic · NVIDIA · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 50.1 to 18.4, 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 and coding — it leads those capability indexes
  • you want the most recent training data — it shipped Oct 2026

Choose Nemotron Nano 9B v2

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

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic
Nemotron Nano 9B v2
NVIDIA
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
50.1
#18
18.4
#227
Reasoning
47.4
#25
17.2
#226
Coding
40.0
#12
14.4
#147
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
Nemotron Nano 9B v2
Math
25.7#110
16.4#211
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

36 reported for Claude Haiku 5.5 · 6 for Nemotron Nano 9B v2

No common benchmarks found

Claude Haiku 5.5 and Nemotron Nano 9B v2don'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
NVIDIA
Nemotron Nano 9B v2
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 Nemotron Nano 9B v2 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

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Haiku 5.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while Nemotron Nano 9B v2 uses NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement .

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

Claude Haiku 5.5

Proprietary

Closed source

Nemotron Nano 9B v2

NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Haiku 5.5 was released on 2026-10-07, while Nemotron Nano 9B v2 was released on 2025-08-18.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 14 months newer than Nemotron Nano 9B v2.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Oct 7, 2026

6 days ago

1.1yr newer
Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Aug 18, 2025

1.2 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Haiku 5.5 has a knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while Nemotron Nano 9B v2 has a cutoff of 2024-09-01.

Claude Haiku 5.5 has more recent training data (up to 2026-06-01), making it potentially better informed about events through that date compared to Nemotron Nano 9B v2 (2024-09-01).

Claude Haiku 5.5

Jun 2026

1.8 yr newer
Nemotron Nano 9B v2

Sep 2024

Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Haiku 5.5 and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Haiku 5.5
✓ Preferred
Nemotron Nano 9B v2
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Nemotron Nano 9B v2.

Which is better, Claude Haiku 5.5 or Nemotron Nano 9B v2?

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 50.1 to 18.4. Claude Haiku 5.5 is made by Anthropic and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is made by NVIDIA. 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 Nemotron Nano 9B v2 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%. Nemotron Nano 9B v2 scores MATH-500: 97.8%, IFEval: 90.3%, AIME 2025: 72.1%, LiveCodeBench: 71.1%, BFCL_v3_MultiTurn: 66.9%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Haiku 5.5 and Nemotron Nano 9B v2?

Claude Haiku 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 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 Nemotron Nano 9B v2?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (50.1 vs 18.4), multimodal support (yes vs no), licensing (Proprietary vs NVIDIA Open Model License Agreement ). See the full comparison above for benchmark-by-benchmark results.

Who makes Claude Haiku 5.5 and Nemotron Nano 9B v2?

Claude Haiku 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and Nemotron Nano 9B v2 is developed by NVIDIA.

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