Comprehensive side-by-side LLM comparison
Claude Haiku 4.5 offers 116.5K more tokens in context window than Grok 3 mini. Grok 3 mini is $5.20 cheaper per million tokens. Claude Haiku 4.5 supports multimodal inputs. Claude Haiku 4.5 is available on 3 providers. Both models have their strengths depending on your specific coding needs.
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.
xAI
Grok 3 mini, released by xAI alongside Grok 3 in February 2025, is a compact reasoning model from the Grok 3 family featuring RL-enhanced Think mode for extended chain-of-thought processing. It features a 131K token context window and targets STEM tasks, mathematics, and coding applications where cost-efficient reasoning with configurable depth is required.
7 months newer

Grok 3 mini
xAI
2025-02-17

Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
2025-10-01
Cost per million tokens (USD)
Claude Haiku 4.5
Grok 3 mini
Context window and performance specifications
Claude Haiku 4.5
2025-02
Available providers and their performance metrics
Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic
AWS Bedrock
Google Cloud Vertex AI
Grok 3 mini
Claude Haiku 4.5
Grok 3 mini
Claude Haiku 4.5
Grok 3 mini
xAI