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Comparison · 2 models · Updated Oct 4, 2026

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs o3-mini

Claude Haiku 4.5 comes out ahead, 58 to 52 on our weighted score.

  1. Our pick

    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. OpenAI

    o3-mini

    Released Jan 31, 2025Deprecated

    52/100
    • ECI140.3
    • Price$1.10 / $4.40
    • Context200K
    Full specs Remove o3-mini

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01 — Verdict

Claude Haiku 4.5 is our pick

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the better all-round choice, scoring 58/100 against o3-mini (52). It leads on capability and inputs & features. The score weighs capability 50%, price 25%, inputs & features 15%, context window 10%.

  • CapabilityClaude Haiku 4.5Capabilities Index (ECI): Claude Haiku 4.5 142.4 · o3-mini 140.3
  • Lowest priceo3-minio3-mini $1.93 · Claude Haiku 4.5 $2.00 per 1M tokens (3:1 blend)
  • Longest contextAbout the sameClaude Haiku 4.5 200,000 · o3-mini 200,000 tokens
  • Widest inputsClaude Haiku 4.5Claude Haiku 4.5: Text, Images, PDFs · o3-mini: Text
  • Self-hostingNo open weightsBoth are available only through APIs
How the score is built
MeasureWeightClaude Haiku 4.5o3-mini
CapabilityCapabilities Index (ECI)50%6966
Price25%3636
Inputs & features15%8045
Context window10%3232
Overall100%58/10052/100
02 — Side by side

Every spec in one table

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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs o3-mini specifications side by side
SpecificationClaude Haiku 4.5Anthropico3-miniOpenAI
Capability
Capabilities Index (ECI)142.4 (best)140.3
ECI rank#90 of 148 (best)#98 of 148
GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions71.2%77.0% (best)
FrontierMath Tiers 1–3Research-level mathematics—18.6%
OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025Competition mathematics66.7%76.9% (best)
SimpleQA VerifiedShort factual questions13.2%15.3% (best)
Price per million tokens
Input$1.00 (best)$1.10
Output$5.00$4.40 (best)
Cached input$0.10 (best)$0.55
Blended (3:1)$2.00$1.93 (best)
Long-context rateSame rateSame rate
Price sourceOfficial Anthropic APIOfficial OpenAI API
Limits
Context window200,000 tokens200,000 tokens
Max output64,000 tokens100,000 tokens (best)
Inputs and features
TextYesYes
ImagesYesNo
PDFsYesNo
AudioNoNo
VideoNoNo
ReasoningYesYeslow · medium · high
Tool callingYesYes
Structured outputYesYes
Availability
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
API model IDclaude-haiku-4-5o3-mini
API providers34 (best)15
ReleasedOct 15, 2025Jan 31, 2025
Knowledge cutoffFeb 28, 2025May 2024
03 — Cost

What would a month cost?

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  • Claude Haiku 4.5$20.00
  • o3-mini$19.80
04 — Questions

Which should you choose?

Which is better: Claude Haiku 4.5 or o3-mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the better all-round choice, scoring 58/100 against o3-mini (52). It leads on capability and inputs & features. The score weighs capability 50%, price 25%, inputs & features 15%, context window 10%.

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or o3-mini?

o3-mini is cheaper at $1.10 input / $4.40 output per million tokens (official OpenAI 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 $1.93 per million tokens for o3-mini versus $2.00 for Claude Haiku 4.5 (1× as much).

Which scores higher on benchmarks?

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on the Capabilities Index (ECI): Claude Haiku 4.5 142.4 (#90 of 148) and o3-mini 140.3 (#98 of 148). The confidence ranges of the top two overlap (139.5–144.3 vs 137.4–141.9), so treat the gap as small. On individual benchmarks: GPQA Diamond — o3-mini 77.0%, Claude Haiku 4.5 71.2%; OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 — o3-mini 76.9%, Claude Haiku 4.5 66.7%; SimpleQA Verified — o3-mini 15.3%, 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 o3-mini yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. On overall capability, Claude Haiku 4.5 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?

Claude Haiku 4.5 and o3-mini share the same 200,000-token context window. Maximum output per response: Claude Haiku 4.5 up to 64,000, o3-mini up to 100,000 tokens.

Which can read images, PDFs, audio or video?

Claude Haiku 4.5 accepts text, images and PDFs; o3-mini accepts text. Claude Haiku 4.5 handles the widest range of inputs.

Are any of these open source?

No. Claude Haiku 4.5 and o3-mini are proprietary and only available through APIs and apps.

Which is newer?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the newest, released Oct 15, 2025. o3-mini came out Jan 31, 2025. Knowledge cutoff: Claude Haiku 4.5 Feb 28, 2025, o3-mini May 2024.

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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