Model comparison

Claude 3.5 Sonnet vs Claude Haiku 5.5

Claude Haiku 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.5 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 2 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic

34.6

Rank #231 Confirmed

Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic

49.5

Rank #52 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 2 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3.5 Sonnet scores higher in 0 categories and Claude Haiku 5.5 in 5 categories; 5 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Claude Haiku 5.5 leads 73.6 to 19.2.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 8.5% for Claude 3.5 Sonnet and 98.9% for Claude Haiku 5.5.

Side by side

Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude Haiku 5.5 specifications
Claude 3.5 SonnetClaude Haiku 5.5
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Noometry Index34.649.5
Released2024-06-202026-10-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—128K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.10
Output $ / M tokens—$0.50
Results tracked609

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Category by category

Coding Claude Haiku 5.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.0 (#165), Claude Haiku 5.5: 49.2 (#50)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetClaude Haiku 5.5
Aider Polyglot51.6%—
LMArena WebDev—1587
GSO4.6%—
WeirdML40%—
BigCodeBench Instruct46.8%—
LiveBench Coding67.1%—
LMArena Coding1342—
BigCodeBench Complete58.6%—
CadEval48%—
HumanEval+81.7%—
MBPP+74.3%—

Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 32.3 (#67), Claude Haiku 5.5: —

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetClaude Haiku 5.5
TheAgentCompany24%—
Cybench17.5%—
BALROG32.6%—
METR Time Horizons45.2%—

Reasoning Claude Haiku 5.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 23.1 (#183), Claude Haiku 5.5: 35.2 (#69)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetClaude Haiku 5.5
SimpleBench41.4%—
NYT Connections (extended)—65.7%
EnigmaEval0.9%—
LiveBench Reasoning56.7%—
LMArena Hard Prompts1305—
Mystery Game Puzzles—30%
DTBench67.8%—
LiveBench Data Analysis55%—
Epoch Capabilities Index133.55—
ForecastBench60.7—
LiveBench59%—

Math Claude Haiku 5.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 19.2 (#288), Claude Haiku 5.5: 73.6 (#18)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetClaude Haiku 5.5
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20258.5%98.9%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—75.1%
FrontierMath Tier 4—46.3%
Omni-MATH27.6%—
LiveBench Math52.3%—
LMArena Math1307—
MATH Level 556.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)2.1%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)0%—

Knowledge Claude Haiku 5.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 28.6 (#245), Claude Haiku 5.5: 50.8 (#70)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetClaude Haiku 5.5
GPQA Diamond55.3%89.6%
Humanity's Last Exam4.1%—
SimpleQA Verified—23.8%
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Confabulations19.9%—
GPQA (HELM)56.5%—
LMArena Expert1265—
MMLU87.3%—

Multimodal Claude Haiku 5.5 leads

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 26.5 (#120), Claude Haiku 5.5: 43.7 (#21)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetClaude Haiku 5.5
LMArena Vision1125—
Video-MME60%—
GeoBench62%—
VPCT33%—
Furniture Assembly—47.5%

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 43.2 (#185), Claude Haiku 5.5: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetClaude Haiku 5.5
LMArena Non-English1283—
LMArena Chinese1272—
LMArena French1305—
LMArena German1297—
LMArena Japanese1234—
LMArena Korean1200—
LMArena Russian1306—
LMArena Spanish1290—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 68.8 (#182), Claude Haiku 5.5: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetClaude Haiku 5.5
LiveBench Instruction Following69.3%—
IFEval85.5%—
LMArena Instruction Following1297—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 39.9 (#167), Claude Haiku 5.5: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetClaude Haiku 5.5
LMArena Longer Query1311—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3.5 Sonnet: 52.9 (#164), Claude Haiku 5.5: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3.5 SonnetClaude Haiku 5.5
LMArena Text1298—
LMArena Creative Writing1292—
Short-Story Creative Writing80.3%—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing1451—
WildBench79.2%—
LMArena Multi-Turn1326—
LiveBench Language53.8%—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet better than Claude Haiku 5.5?

Claude Haiku 5.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 49.5 to 34.6 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude 3.5 Sonnet or Claude Haiku 5.5 better for coding?

Claude Haiku 5.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 49.2 versus 39.0 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude Haiku 5.5 share?

2 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3.5 Sonnet has 60 scored results on Noometry and Claude Haiku 5.5 has 9.

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