Qwen Turbo vs Claude Haiku 3.5
Too close to call on our weighted score (Qwen Turbo 31, Claude Haiku 3.5 30). The right pick depends on what you value most.
Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen Turbo
31/100- ECI—
- Price$0.05 / $0.20
- Context1M
AnthropicClaude Haiku 3.5
30/100- ECI127.2
- Price—
- Context200K
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Too close to call
It is close. Our weighted score puts them within a point (Qwen Turbo 31/100, Claude Haiku 3.5 30/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: Qwen Turbo for raw capability. The score weighs capability 67%, inputs & features 20%, context window 13%. Capability uses the average of shared benchmarks (GPQA Diamond and OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025), because Qwen Turbo has no Capabilities Index score yet.
- CapabilityQwen TurboShared benchmarks: Qwen Turbo 24.0% · Claude Haiku 3.5 21.2%
- Lowest priceQwen TurboQwen Turbo $0.087 per 1M tokens (3:1 blend) · Claude Haiku 3.5 unpriced
- Longest contextQwen TurboQwen Turbo 1,000,000 · Claude Haiku 3.5 200,000 tokens
- Widest inputsClaude Haiku 3.5Qwen Turbo: Text · Claude Haiku 3.5: Text, Images, PDFs
- Self-hostingNo open weightsBoth are available only through APIs
| Measure | Weight | Qwen Turbo | Claude Haiku 3.5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CapabilityShared benchmarks | 67% | 24 | 21 |
| Inputs & features | 20% | 35 | 60 |
| Context window | 13% | 60 | 32 |
| Overall | 100% | 31/100 | 30/100 |
Left out because at least one model lacks the data: price. The remaining weights were rescaled.
Every spec in one table
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| Specification | Qwen TurboAlibaba (Qwen) | Claude Haiku 3.5Anthropic |
|---|---|---|
| Capability | ||
| Capabilities Index (ECI) | — | 127.2 |
| ECI rank | — | #134 of 148 |
| GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions | 41.8% (best) | 38.1% |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025Competition mathematics | 6.1% (best) | 4.3% |
| Price per million tokens | ||
| Input | $0.05 | — |
| Output | $0.20 | — |
| Cached input | — | — |
| Blended (3:1) | $0.087 | — |
| Long-context rate | Same rate | — |
| Price source | Official Alibaba API | — |
| Limits | ||
| Context window | 1,000,000 tokens (best) | 200,000 tokens |
| Max output | 16,384 tokens (best) | 8,192 tokens |
| Inputs and features | ||
| Text | Yes | Yes |
| Images | No | Yes |
| PDFs | No | Yes |
| Audio | No | No |
| Video | No | No |
| Reasoning | Yes | No |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | No | No |
| Availability | ||
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| API model ID | qwen-turbo | — |
| API providers | 3 | — |
| Released | Nov 1, 2024 | Oct 22, 2024 |
| Knowledge cutoff | Apr 2024 | Jul 31, 2024 |
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- Qwen Turbo$0.90
- Claude Haiku 3.5—
Which should you choose?
Which is better: Qwen Turbo or Claude Haiku 3.5?
It is close. Our weighted score puts them within a point (Qwen Turbo 31/100, Claude Haiku 3.5 30/100), so choose by what matters most for your work: Qwen Turbo for raw capability. The score weighs capability 67%, inputs & features 20%, context window 13%. Capability uses the average of shared benchmarks (GPQA Diamond and OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025), because Qwen Turbo has no Capabilities Index score yet.
Which is cheaper, Qwen Turbo or Claude Haiku 3.5?
Qwen Turbo is cheaper at $0.05 input / $0.20 output per million tokens (official Alibaba API price). . At a typical mix of three input tokens to one output token, that is $0.087 per million tokens for Qwen Turbo versus . Claude Haiku 3.5 has no published per-token price.
Which scores higher on benchmarks?
Not every model here has a Capabilities Index score, so we compare the average of shared benchmarks (GPQA Diamond and OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025): Qwen Turbo 24.0% and Claude Haiku 3.5 21.2%. On individual benchmarks: GPQA Diamond — Qwen Turbo 41.8%, Claude Haiku 3.5 38.1%; OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025 — Qwen Turbo 6.1%, Claude Haiku 3.5 4.3%.
Which is better for coding?
There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for Qwen Turbo and Claude Haiku 3.5 yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. On overall capability, Qwen Turbo 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?
Qwen Turbo has the largest context window at 1,000,000 tokens, against 200,000 for Claude Haiku 3.5. Maximum output per response: Qwen Turbo up to 16,384, Claude Haiku 3.5 up to 8,192 tokens.
Which can read images, PDFs, audio or video?
Qwen Turbo accepts text; Claude Haiku 3.5 accepts text, images and PDFs. Claude Haiku 3.5 handles the widest range of inputs.
Are any of these open source?
No. Qwen Turbo and Claude Haiku 3.5 are proprietary and only available through APIs and apps.
Which is newer?
Qwen Turbo is the newest, released Nov 1, 2024. Claude Haiku 3.5 came out Oct 22, 2024. Knowledge cutoff: Qwen Turbo Apr 2024, Claude Haiku 3.5 Jul 31, 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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