GPT-4o mini vs Claude Haiku 3.5 vs Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct
Too close to call on our weighted score (GPT-4o mini 50, Claude Haiku 3.5 49, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct 41). The right pick depends on what you value most.
OpenAIGPT-4o mini
50/100- ECI126.6
- Price$0.15 / $0.60
- Context128K
AnthropicClaude Haiku 3.5
49/100- ECI127.2
- Price—
- Context200K
MetaLlama-3.3-70B-Instruct
41/100- ECI127.3
- Price$0.59 / $0.724
- Context128K
Too close to call
It is close. Our weighted score puts them within a point (GPT-4o mini 50/100, Claude Haiku 3.5 49/100, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct 41/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct for raw capability, GPT-4o mini on price and Claude Haiku 3.5 for long inputs. The score weighs capability 67%, inputs & features 20%, context window 13%.
- CapabilityLlama-3.3-70B-InstructCapabilities Index (ECI): Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct 127.3 · Claude Haiku 3.5 127.2 · GPT-4o mini 126.6
- Lowest priceGPT-4o miniGPT-4o mini $0.263 · Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct $0.624 per 1M tokens (3:1 blend) · Claude Haiku 3.5 unpriced
- Longest contextClaude Haiku 3.5Claude Haiku 3.5 200,000 · GPT-4o mini 128,000 · Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct 128,000 tokens
- Widest inputsGPT-4o mini and Claude Haiku 3.5GPT-4o mini: Text, Images, PDFs · Claude Haiku 3.5: Text, Images, PDFs · Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct: Text
- Self-hostingLlama-3.3-70B-InstructPublishes downloadable weights
| Measure | Weight | GPT-4o mini | Claude Haiku 3.5 | Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CapabilityCapabilities Index (ECI) | 67% | 49 | 49 | 49 |
| Inputs & features | 20% | 70 | 60 | 25 |
| Context window | 13% | 24 | 32 | 24 |
| Overall | 100% | 50/100 | 49/100 | 41/100 |
Left out because at least one model lacks the data: price. The remaining weights were rescaled.
Every spec in one table
Highlighted cells lead their row. Dashes mean the data is not published.
| Specification | GPT-4o miniOpenAI | Claude Haiku 3.5Anthropic | Llama-3.3-70B-InstructMeta |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | |||
| Capabilities Index (ECI) | 126.6 | 127.2 | 127.3 (best) |
| ECI rank | #135 of 148 | #134 of 148 | #133 of 148 (best) |
| GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions | 37.7% | 38.1% | 47.4% (best) |
| FrontierMath Tiers 1–3Research-level mathematics | 0.7% | — | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025Competition mathematics | 6.9% (best) | 4.3% | 5.1% |
| SimpleQA VerifiedShort factual questions | 8.3% | — | — |
| Price per million tokens | |||
| Input | $0.15 (best) | — | $0.59 |
| Output | $0.60 (best) | — | $0.724 |
| Cached input | $0.075 | — | — |
| Blended (3:1) | $0.263 (best) | — | $0.624 |
| Long-context rate | Same rate | — | Same rate |
| Price source | Official OpenAI API | — | Median of 21 providers |
| Limits | |||
| Context window | 128,000 tokens | 200,000 tokens (best) | 128,000 tokens |
| Max output | 16,384 tokens (best) | 8,192 tokens | 4,096 tokens |
| Inputs and features | |||
| Text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Images | Yes | Yes | No |
| PDFs | Yes | Yes | No |
| Audio | No | No | No |
| Video | No | No | No |
| Reasoning | No | No | No |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | Yes | No | No |
| Availability | |||
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary | Open |
| API model ID | gpt-4o-mini | — | llama-3.3-70b-instruct |
| API providers | 21 | — | 24 (best) |
| Released | Jul 18, 2024 | Oct 22, 2024 | Dec 6, 2024 |
| Knowledge cutoff | Sep 2023 | Jul 31, 2024 | Dec 2023 |
What would a month cost?
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- GPT-4o mini$2.70
- Claude Haiku 3.5—
- Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct$7.35
Which should you choose?
Which is better: GPT-4o mini, Claude Haiku 3.5 or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?
It is close. Our weighted score puts them within a point (GPT-4o mini 50/100, Claude Haiku 3.5 49/100, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct 41/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct for raw capability, GPT-4o mini on price and Claude Haiku 3.5 for long inputs. The score weighs capability 67%, inputs & features 20%, context window 13%.
Which is cheaper, GPT-4o mini, Claude Haiku 3.5 or Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct?
GPT-4o mini is cheaper at $0.15 input / $0.60 output per million tokens (official OpenAI API price). Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct costs $0.59 input / $0.724 output per million tokens (median across 21 API providers; free on Llama). At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $0.263 per million tokens for GPT-4o mini versus $0.624 for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct (2.4× as much). Claude Haiku 3.5 has no published per-token price.
Which scores higher on benchmarks?
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct scores higher on the Capabilities Index (ECI): Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct 127.3 (#133 of 148), Claude Haiku 3.5 127.2 (#134 of 148) and GPT-4o mini 126.6 (#135 of 148). The confidence ranges of the top two overlap (122.5–129.5 vs 120.7–129.7), so treat the gap as small. On individual benchmarks: GPQA Diamond — Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct 47.4%, Claude Haiku 3.5 38.1%, GPT-4o mini 37.7%; OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 — GPT-4o mini 6.9%, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct 5.1%, Claude Haiku 3.5 4.3%.
Which is better for coding?
There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for GPT-4o mini, Claude Haiku 3.5 and Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. On overall capability, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct leads, which tends to carry over to coding, but test on your own codebase. All three support tool calling for agent workflows.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Haiku 3.5 has the largest context window at 200,000 tokens, against 128,000 for GPT-4o mini and 128,000 for Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct. Maximum output per response: GPT-4o mini up to 16,384, Claude Haiku 3.5 up to 8,192, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct up to 4,096 tokens.
Which can read images, PDFs, audio or video?
GPT-4o mini accepts text, images and PDFs; Claude Haiku 3.5 accepts text, images and PDFs; Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct accepts text. GPT-4o mini handles the widest range of inputs.
Are any of these open source?
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct publishes its weights and can be self-hosted; GPT-4o mini and Claude Haiku 3.5 is proprietary.
Which is newer?
Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct is the newest, released Dec 6, 2024. Claude Haiku 3.5 came out Oct 22, 2024; GPT-4o mini came out Jul 18, 2024. Knowledge cutoff: GPT-4o mini Sep 2023, Claude Haiku 3.5 Jul 31, 2024, Llama-3.3-70B-Instruct Dec 2023.
How do you decide the winner?
Each model gets a 0–100 score on capability (50%, independent benchmark results); price (25%, blended price per million tokens (3 input : 1 output), log scale); inputs & features (15%, image, PDF, audio and video input, tool calling, structured output and reasoning); context window (10%, maximum tokens per request, log scale). Dimensions missing for any model are dropped and the remaining weights rescaled, so every model is judged on the same evidence. Specs and prices come from public model listings and the labs’ own API pages; capability scores come from independent benchmark runs. Data updated Oct 4, 2026.
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