Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Sonnet 4.5 leads with 5.1% higher average benchmark score. Claude Haiku 4.5 offers 136.0K more tokens in context window than Claude Sonnet 4.5. 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 continues Anthropic's tradition of fast, efficient models in the fourth generation Claude family. Designed to maintain the hallmark speed and cost-effectiveness of the Haiku line while incorporating advancements from the Claude 4 series, it serves applications requiring rapid processing and quick turnaround times.
Anthropic
Claude Sonnet 4.5 was developed to bridge human thinking and machine assistance, allowing people to work with language and tools in a more conversational and natural way. Built with a focus on turning ideas into results, it represents an evolution in making AI feel less mechanical while maintaining strong capabilities across reasoning, coding, and collaborative tasks.
16 days newer

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
2025-09-29

Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
2025-10-15
Cost per million tokens (USD)

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Context window and performance specifications
Average performance across 6 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
2025-01-31
Claude Haiku 4.5
2025-02-01
Available providers and their performance metrics

Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Sonnet 4.5
Anthropic
ZeroEval