Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 7.2% higher average benchmark score. Claude Haiku 4.5 is $12.00 cheaper per million tokens. Overall, Claude Sonnet 4.5 is the stronger choice for coding tasks.
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5, released by Anthropic in October 2025, is a fast, efficient large language model from the Claude 4.5 family optimized for high-throughput, low-latency workloads. It features a 200K token context window, 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking capabilities. Haiku 4.5 targets latency-sensitive applications such as real-time assistants, document classification, and lightweight agentic tasks where rapid response times are a primary requirement.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5, released by Anthropic in September 2025, is a large language model from the Claude 4.5 family that balances response quality and efficiency for coding, agentic tasks, and analytical work. It features a 200K token context window (extendable to 1M tokens in beta), 64K maximum output tokens, native image understanding, and extended thinking support. Sonnet 4.5 targets use cases that require a balance of throughput and reasoning depth, including code generation, data analysis, and multi-step agentic pipelines.
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Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29

Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
2025-10-01
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 2 common benchmarks
Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Performance comparison across key benchmark categories
Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
2025-01
Claude Haiku 4.5
2025-02
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI