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Comparison · 2 models · Updated Oct 4, 2026

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Grok 4.3

Grok 4.3 comes out ahead, 67 to 58 on our weighted score, and it is the cheaper option too.

  1. Anthropic

    Claude Haiku 4.5

    Released Oct 15, 2025

    58/100
    • ECI142.4
    • Price$1.00 / $5.00
    • Context200K
    Full specs Remove Claude Haiku 4.5
  2. Our pick

    xAI

    Grok 4.3

    Released Apr 17, 2026

    67/100
    • ECI149.2
    • Price$1.25 / $2.50
    • Context1M
    Full specs Remove Grok 4.3

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01 — Verdict

Grok 4.3 is our pick

Grok 4.3 is the better all-round choice, scoring 67/100 against Claude Haiku 4.5 (58). It leads on capability, price and context window. The score weighs capability 50%, price 25%, inputs & features 15%, context window 10%.

  • CapabilityGrok 4.3Capabilities Index (ECI): Grok 4.3 149.2 · Claude Haiku 4.5 142.4
  • Lowest priceGrok 4.3Grok 4.3 $1.56 · Claude Haiku 4.5 $2.00 per 1M tokens (3:1 blend)
  • Longest contextGrok 4.3Grok 4.3 1,000,000 · Claude Haiku 4.5 200,000 tokens
  • Widest inputsSame inputsClaude Haiku 4.5: Text, Images, PDFs · Grok 4.3: Text, Images, PDFs
  • Self-hostingNo open weightsBoth are available only through APIs
How the score is built
MeasureWeightClaude Haiku 4.5Grok 4.3
CapabilityCapabilities Index (ECI)50%6977
Price25%3641
Inputs & features15%8080
Context window10%3260
Overall100%58/10067/100
02 — Side by side

Every spec in one table

Highlighted cells lead their row. Dashes mean the data is not published.

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Grok 4.3 specifications side by side
SpecificationClaude Haiku 4.5AnthropicGrok 4.3xAI
Capability
Capabilities Index (ECI)142.4149.2 (best)
ECI rank#90 of 148#55 of 148 (best)
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions71.2%88.8% (best)
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3Research-level mathematics—42.8%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025Competition mathematics66.7%93.3% (best)
SimpleQA VerifiedShort factual questions13.2%33.2% (best)
Price per million tokens
Input$1.00 (best)$1.25
Output$5.00$2.50 (best)
Cached input$0.10 (best)$0.20
Blended (3:1)$2.00$1.56 (best)
Long-context rateSame rateOver 200K: $2.50 / $5.00
Price sourceOfficial Anthropic APIOfficial xAI API
Limits
Context window200,000 tokens1,000,000 tokens (best)
Max output64,000 tokens (best)30,000 tokens
Inputs and features
TextYesYes
ImagesYesYes
PDFsYesYes
AudioNoNo
VideoNoNo
ReasoningYesYeslow · medium · high
Tool callingYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
Availability
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
API model IDclaude-haiku-4-5grok-4.3
API providers34 (best)27
ReleasedOct 15, 2025Apr 17, 2026
Knowledge cutoffFeb 28, 2025—
03 — Cost

What would a month cost?

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  • Claude Haiku 4.5$20.00
  • Grok 4.3$17.50
04 — Questions

Which should you choose?

Which is better: Claude Haiku 4.5 or Grok 4.3?

Grok 4.3 is the better all-round choice, scoring 67/100 against Claude Haiku 4.5 (58). It leads on capability, price and context window. The score weighs capability 50%, price 25%, inputs & features 15%, context window 10%.

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Grok 4.3?

Grok 4.3 is cheaper at $1.25 input / $2.50 output per million tokens (official xAI API price). Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1.00 input / $5.00 output per million tokens (official Anthropic API price). At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $1.56 per million tokens for Grok 4.3 versus $2.00 for Claude Haiku 4.5 (1.3× as much).

Which scores higher on benchmarks?

Grok 4.3 scores higher on the Capabilities Index (ECI): Grok 4.3 149.2 (#55 of 148) and Claude Haiku 4.5 142.4 (#90 of 148). Their confidence ranges do not overlap (147.6–150.8 vs 139.5–144.3), so the gap is a real one. On individual benchmarks: GPQA Diamond — Grok 4.3 88.8%, Claude Haiku 4.5 71.2%; OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 — Grok 4.3 93.3%, Claude Haiku 4.5 66.7%; SimpleQA Verified — Grok 4.3 33.2%, Claude Haiku 4.5 13.2%.

Which is better for coding?

There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for Claude Haiku 4.5 and Grok 4.3 yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. On overall capability, Grok 4.3 leads, which tends to carry over to coding, but test on your own codebase. Both support tool calling for agent workflows.

Which has the bigger context window?

Grok 4.3 has the largest context window at 1,000,000 tokens, against 200,000 for Claude Haiku 4.5. Maximum output per response: Claude Haiku 4.5 up to 64,000, Grok 4.3 up to 30,000 tokens.

Which can read images, PDFs, audio or video?

Claude Haiku 4.5 accepts text, images and PDFs; Grok 4.3 accepts text, images and PDFs. They handle the same number of input types.

Are any of these open source?

No. Claude Haiku 4.5 and Grok 4.3 are proprietary and only available through APIs and apps.

Which is newer?

Grok 4.3 is the newest, released Apr 17, 2026. Claude Haiku 4.5 came out Oct 15, 2025. Knowledge cutoff: Claude Haiku 4.5 Feb 28, 2025.

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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