Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) vs Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Trinity Mini
Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) comes out ahead, 72 to 65 and 47 on our weighted score, and it is the cheaper option too.
- Our pick
Alibaba (Qwen)Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)
72/100- ECI—
- Price$0.022 / $0.215
- Context262K
AnthropicClaude Haiku 4.5
47/100- ECI142.2
- Price$1.00 / $5.00
- Context200K
Arcee AITrinity Mini
65/100- ECI—
- Price$0.045 / $0.15
- Context131K
Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) is our pick
Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) is the better all-round choice, scoring 72/100 against Trinity Mini (65) and Claude Haiku 4.5 (47). It leads on context window. Claude Haiku 4.5 wins on inputs & features. The score weighs price 50%, inputs & features 30%, context window 20%. None of the shared benchmarks cover every model here yet, so capability is left out of this verdict.
- CapabilityNot enough dataNo independent benchmark covers every model here yet
- Lowest priceQwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) $0.07 · Trinity Mini $0.071 · Claude Haiku 4.5 $2.00 per 1M tokens (3:1 blend)
- Longest contextQwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) 262,144 · Claude Haiku 4.5 200,000 · Trinity Mini 131,072 tokens
- Widest inputsClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud): Text, Images · Claude Haiku 4.5: Text, Images, PDFs · Trinity Mini: Text
- Self-hostingTrinity MiniPublishes downloadable weights (OpenMDW-1.1)
| Measure | Weight | Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Trinity Mini |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Price | 50% | 100 | 34 | 100 |
| Inputs & features | 30% | 50 | 80 | 35 |
| Context window | 20% | 37 | 32 | 25 |
| Overall | 100% | 72/100 | 47/100 | 65/100 |
Left out because at least one model lacks the data: capability. The remaining weights were rescaled.
Every spec in one table
Highlighted cells lead their row. Dashes mean the data is not published.
| Specification | Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)Alibaba (Qwen) | Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic | Trinity MiniArcee AI |
|---|---|---|---|
| Capability | |||
| Capabilities Index (ECI) | — | 142.2 | — |
| ECI rank | — | #102 of 165 | — |
| GPQA DiamondGraduate-level science questions | — | 71.2% | — |
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024–2025Competition mathematics | — | 66.7% | — |
| SimpleQA VerifiedShort factual questions | — | 13.2% | — |
| Price per million tokens | |||
| Input | $0.022 (best) | $1.00 | $0.045 |
| Output | $0.215 | $5.00 | $0.15 (best) |
| Cached input | — | $0.10 | — |
| Blended (3:1) | $0.07 (best) | $2.00 | $0.071 |
| Long-context rate | Same rate | Same rate | Same rate |
| Price source | Median of 1 providers | Official Anthropic API | Median of 1 providers |
| Limits | |||
| Context window | 262,144 tokens (best) | 200,000 tokens | 131,072 tokens |
| Max output | 32,768 tokens | 64,000 tokens | 131,072 tokens (best) |
| Inputs and features | |||
| Text | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Images | Yes | Yes | No |
| PDFs | No | Yes | No |
| Audio | No | No | No |
| Video | No | No | No |
| Reasoning | No | Yes | Yes |
| Tool calling | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Structured output | No | Yes | No |
| Availability | |||
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary | OpenOpenMDW-1.1 |
| API model ID | — | claude-haiku-4-5 | — |
| API providers | 1 | 48 (best) | 1 |
| Released | Oct 15, 2025 | Oct 15, 2025 | Dec 1, 2025 |
| Knowledge cutoff | — | Feb 28, 2025 | — |
What would a month cost?
Enter your expected volume in millions of tokens. List prices only; caching and batch discounts would lower these.
- Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud)$0.65
- Claude Haiku 4.5$20.00
- Trinity Mini$0.75
Which should you choose?
Which is better: Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud), Claude Haiku 4.5 or Trinity Mini?
Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) is the better all-round choice, scoring 72/100 against Trinity Mini (65) and Claude Haiku 4.5 (47). It leads on context window. Claude Haiku 4.5 wins on inputs & features. The score weighs price 50%, inputs & features 30%, context window 20%. None of the shared benchmarks cover every model here yet, so capability is left out of this verdict.
Which is cheaper, Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud), Claude Haiku 4.5 or Trinity Mini?
Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) is cheaper at $0.022 input / $0.215 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider). Trinity Mini costs $0.045 input / $0.15 output per million tokens (median across 1 API provider); 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 $0.07 per million tokens for Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) versus $0.071 for Trinity Mini (1× as much) and $2.00 for Claude Haiku 4.5 (28× as much).
Which scores higher on benchmarks?
There is no independent benchmark that covers all three models yet. Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) has not been scored yet, Claude Haiku 4.5 has an ECI of 142.2 and Trinity Mini has not been scored yet.
Which is better for coding?
There are no published SWE-bench Verified results for Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud), Claude Haiku 4.5 and Trinity Mini yet, so there is no like-for-like coding score. Test both on a sample of your own tasks. All three support tool calling for agent workflows.
Which has the bigger context window?
Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) has the largest context window at 262,144 tokens, against 200,000 for Claude Haiku 4.5 and 131,072 for Trinity Mini. Maximum output per response: Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) up to 32,768, Claude Haiku 4.5 up to 64,000, Trinity Mini up to 131,072 tokens.
Which can read images, PDFs, audio or video?
Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) accepts text and images; Claude Haiku 4.5 accepts text, images and PDFs; Trinity Mini accepts text. Claude Haiku 4.5 handles the widest range of inputs.
Are any of these open source?
Trinity Mini publishes its weights (OpenMDW-1.1) and can be self-hosted; Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) and Claude Haiku 4.5 is proprietary.
Which is newer?
Trinity Mini is the newest, released Dec 1, 2025. Qwen3 VL Flash (Alibaba Cloud) came out Oct 15, 2025; 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 Nov 2, 2026.
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