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Claude Haiku 5.5 vs QwQ-32B

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 50.0 to 14.7.

Anthropic · Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team · Updated for 2026

Which is better?

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the overall LLM Stats Score 50.0 to 14.7, ranking #19 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 50.0 and ranks #19 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 QwQ-32B

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

At a glance

The differences that matter most.

Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic
QwQ-32B
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
Core performance indexes
LLM Stats Score
50.0
#19
14.7
#248
Reasoning
47.2
#27
15.5
#239
Coding
40.2
#13
10.2
#178
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
QwQ-32B
Math
25.7#110
18.1#192
Conservative TrueSkill rating · higher is betterHow scores work

Individual benchmarks

36 reported for Claude Haiku 5.5 · 7 for QwQ-32B

No common benchmarks found

Claude Haiku 5.5 and QwQ-32Bdon'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
Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team
QwQ-32B
Input- tokens
Output- tokens
Fri Oct 09 2026 • llm-stats.com

Input capabilities

Documented input modalities across available providers

Claude Haiku 5.5 supports multimodal inputs, whereas QwQ-32B 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

QwQ-32B

Text
Images
Audio
Video

License

Usage and distribution terms

Claude Haiku 5.5 is licensed under a proprietary license, while QwQ-32B 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

QwQ-32B

Apache 2.0

Open weights

Release Timeline

When each model was launched

Claude Haiku 5.5 was released on 2026-10-07, while QwQ-32B was released on 2025-03-05.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 19 months newer than QwQ-32B.

Claude Haiku 5.5

Oct 7, 2026

2 days ago

1.6yr newer
QwQ-32B

Mar 5, 2025

1.6 years ago

Knowledge Cutoff

When training data ends

Claude Haiku 5.5 has a knowledge cutoff of 2026-06-01, while QwQ-32B has a cutoff of 2024-11-28.

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 QwQ-32B (2024-11-28).

Claude Haiku 5.5

Jun 2026

1.6 yr newer
QwQ-32B

Nov 2024

Outputs Comparison

Notice missing or incorrect data?

Judge for yourself.

Run your own prompts against Claude Haiku 5.5 and QwQ-32B side-by-side, then vote on the output you prefer.

Claude Haiku 5.5
✓ Preferred
QwQ-32B
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FAQ

Common questions about Claude Haiku 5.5 vs QwQ-32B.

Which is better, Claude Haiku 5.5 or QwQ-32B?

Claude Haiku 5.5 leads the LLM Stats Score 50.0 to 14.7. Claude Haiku 5.5 is made by Anthropic and QwQ-32B is made by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team. 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 QwQ-32B 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%. QwQ-32B scores MATH-500: 90.6%, IFEval: 83.9%, AIME 2024: 79.5%, LiveBench: 73.1%, BFCL: 66.4%.

What are the context window sizes for Claude Haiku 5.5 and QwQ-32B?

Claude Haiku 5.5 supports 1.0M tokens and QwQ-32B 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 QwQ-32B?

Key differences include LLM Stats Score (50.0 vs 14.7), 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 QwQ-32B?

Claude Haiku 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and QwQ-32B is developed by Alibaba Cloud / Qwen Team.

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