Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Claude Opus 4.1

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 25 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic

29.2

Rank #315 Confirmed

Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic

41.0

Rank #142 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 25 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Opus 4.1 in 10 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in knowledge, where Claude Opus 4.1 leads 42.0 to 18.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 4.3% for Claude 3.5 Haiku and 68.9% for Claude Opus 4.1.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Haiku and Claude Opus 4.1 specifications
Claude 3.5 HaikuClaude Opus 4.1
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Noometry Index29.241.0
Released2024-10-222025-08-05
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—200K
Max output—32K
Input $ / M tokens—$15
Output $ / M tokens—$75
Results tracked4948

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Category by category

Coding Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 32.9 (#265), Claude Opus 4.1: 44.4 (#73)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Opus 4.1
WeirdML30.7%45.9%
LMArena Coding12861479
SWE-bench Verified—73.3%
Aider Polyglot28%—
LMArena WebDev—1390
SciCode27.4%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.1%—
LiveBench Coding51.4%—
BigCodeBench Complete59%—
CadEval32%—
ALE-Bench—674.77
AlgoTune—1.34

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 28.0 (#95), Claude Opus 4.1: 35.0 (#41)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Opus 4.1
Terminal-Bench—38%
GDPval—43.6%
Cybench—42%
DeepResearch Bench—48.3%
BALROG19.3%—
LMArena Search—1148
METR Time Horizons—66.8%

Reasoning Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 17.7 (#290), Claude Opus 4.1: 32.2 (#76)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Opus 4.1
LMArena Hard Prompts12511443
DTBench56.7%80%
Epoch Capabilities Index127.15144.12
SimpleBench—60%
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles—7%
EnigmaEval—7.2%
EBR-Bench—7.9%
LiveBench Reasoning28.1%—
Mystery Game Puzzles—21%
LiveBench Data Analysis48.5%—
LMCA—37.1%
ForecastBench—62
LiveBench43.5%—

Math Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 14.7 (#300), Claude Opus 4.1: 22.3 (#277)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Opus 4.1
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20254.3%68.9%
LMArena Math12441431
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)0.3%7.2%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—12.6%
FrontierMath Tier 4—2.4%
Omni-MATH22.4%—
LiveBench Math35.5%—
MATH Level 546.4%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—4.2%

Knowledge Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 18.7 (#281), Claude Opus 4.1: 42.0 (#101)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Opus 4.1
GPQA Diamond38.1%77.3%
Confabulations36.7%17.1%
LMArena Expert12081439
Humanity's Last Exam—11.5%
MMLU-Pro60.5%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate—11.8%
GPQA (HELM)36.3%—
MMLU74.3%—

Multimodal Too close to call

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 26.8 (#117), Claude Opus 4.1: 26.8 (#119)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Opus 4.1
LMArena Vision1092—
GeoBench34%—
VPCT—35%

Multilingual Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 40.0 (#218), Claude Opus 4.1: 52.0 (#95)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Opus 4.1
LMArena Non-English12381405
LMArena Chinese12291427
LMArena French12641431
LMArena German12371413
LMArena Japanese11751378
LMArena Korean11731380
LMArena Russian12531422
LMArena Spanish12611448

Instruction Following Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 62.9 (#234), Claude Opus 4.1: 75.6 (#58)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Opus 4.1
LMArena Instruction Following12411435
LiveBench Instruction Following61.9%—
IFEval79.2%—

Long Context Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 38.3 (#200), Claude Opus 4.1: 44.5 (#63)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Opus 4.1
LMArena Longer Query12611455

Writing & Preference Claude Opus 4.1 leads

Claude 3.5 Haiku: 42.7 (#234), Claude Opus 4.1: 62.4 (#74)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 HaikuClaude Opus 4.1
LMArena Text12551419
LMArena Creative Writing12331412
Short-Story Creative Writing73.5%84.7%
LMArena Multi-Turn12651444
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1146—
WildBench76%—
LiveBench Language35.4%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku better than Claude Opus 4.1?

Claude Opus 4.1 is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.0 to 29.2 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Claude Opus 4.1 better for coding?

Claude Opus 4.1 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.4 versus 32.9 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Haiku and Claude Opus 4.1 share?

25 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Haiku has 49 scored results on Noometry and Claude Opus 4.1 has 48.

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