Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Opus 4.8
Decision Recommendation
⚖️ Editorial Verdict: In our analysis, Claude Opus 4.8 is the premium intelligence choice, scoring 29.7% higher on coding benchmarks. However, this accuracy premium comes with a cost overhead: Claude Haiku 4.5 is 5.0x cheaper to run and delivers 2.0x faster throughput. If you are building high-volume, simple chatbots or processing massive amounts of text where budget is critical, Claude Haiku 4.5 offers excellent cost savings. For agentic reasoning, code refactoring, or complex logical tasks, the accuracy premium of Claude Opus 4.8 fully justifies the cost.
Claude Haiku 4.5
Benchmarks & Scores
Cost & Performance
Claude Opus 4.8
Benchmarks & Scores
Cost & Performance
Frequently Asked Questions
Claude Haiku 4.5 is cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8. Claude Haiku 4.5 has a blended cost of $2.00/1M tokens, which is about 5.0x cheaper than Claude Opus 4.8 at $10.00/1M tokens.
Claude Haiku 4.5 is faster than Claude Opus 4.8. Claude Haiku 4.5 generates 98.5 tokens per second (tps) compared to Claude Opus 4.8 which generates 48.1 tokens per second.
Claude Opus 4.8 is better for coding tasks. It scores 69.2% on coding evaluations (swe-bench-pro) compared to Claude Haiku 4.5 which scores 39.5%.
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