Model comparison
Claude 3 Haiku vs Claude 3 Opus
Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 33 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 33 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 1 category and Claude 3 Opus in 8 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where Claude 3 Opus leads 47.2 to 29.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is MATH Level 5: 14.9% for Claude 3 Haiku and 37.5% for Claude 3 Opus.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Haiku | Claude 3 Opus | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 29.5 |
| Released | 2024-03-07 | 2024-02-29 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 37 | 46 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Claude 3 Opus: 32.9 (#267)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| WeirdML | 9.8% | 19.2% |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | 45.5% |
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | 1264 |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | 57.4% |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | 77.4% |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | 73.3% |
| LiveBench Coding | — | 38.6% |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude 3 Haiku: —, Claude 3 Opus: 24.6 (#116)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| Cybench | — | 10% |
| METR Time Horizons | — | 29.5% |
Reasoning Claude 3 Haiku leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Claude 3 Opus: 14.6 (#324)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | 1245 |
| DTBench | 50.1% | 61.6% |
| LMCA | 8.8% | 17% |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.35 | 126.91 |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | 58.4 |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | 88.5% |
| SimpleBench | — | 23.5% |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 5% |
| EnigmaEval | — | 0.8% |
| LiveBench Reasoning | — | 40.6% |
| LiveBench Data Analysis | — | 57.9% |
| LiveBench | — | 49.2% |
Math Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Claude 3 Opus: 14.8 (#299)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | 4.7% |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1273 |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | 37.5% |
| LiveBench Math | — | 43.6% |
Knowledge Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Claude 3 Opus: 24.5 (#267)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | 47.2% |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | 22.7% |
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | 1223 |
| MMLU | 73.8% | 84.6% |
| SimpleQA Verified | — | 12.6% |
Multimodal Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), Claude 3 Opus: 27.1 (#116)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 950 | 1023 |
| ScienceQA | 72% | — |
Multilingual Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Claude 3 Opus: 41.4 (#207)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | 1258 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | 1248 |
| LMArena French | 1195 | 1275 |
| LMArena German | 1174 | 1258 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | 1204 |
| LMArena Korean | 1109 | 1187 |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | 1280 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1166 | 1246 |
Instruction Following Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), Claude 3 Opus: 64.1 (#228)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1173 | 1248 |
| LiveBench Instruction Following | — | 63.9% |
Long Context Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Claude 3 Opus: 38.2 (#202)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1190 | 1259 |
Writing & Preference Claude 3 Opus leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Claude 3 Opus: 47.2 (#213)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Claude 3 Opus |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1195 | 1262 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | 1235 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | 1275 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | — |
| LiveBench Language | — | 50.4% |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Claude 3 Opus?
Claude 3 Opus is the stronger model overall, scoring 29.5 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Haiku or Claude 3 Opus better for coding?
Claude 3 Opus scores higher on coding benchmarks: 32.9 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Claude 3 Opus share?
33 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Claude 3 Opus has 46.