Model comparison
Claude 3 Haiku vs GPT-5.5 Instant
GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.7 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and GPT-5.5 Instant in 9 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in writing & preference, where GPT-5.5 Instant leads 61.8 to 29.7.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.8% for Claude 3 Haiku and 68.1% for GPT-5.5 Instant.
Side by side
| Claude 3 Haiku | GPT-5.5 Instant | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Noometry Index | 25.9 | 42.7 |
| Released | 2024-03-07 | 2026-05-05 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | — | — |
| Max output | — | — |
| Input $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Output $ / M tokens | — | — |
| Results tracked | 37 | 27 |
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Category by category
Coding GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), GPT-5.5 Instant: 44.3 (#74)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1199 | 1433 |
| SciCode | — | 48.6% |
| WeirdML | 9.8% | — |
| BigCodeBench Instruct | 39.4% | — |
| BigCodeBench Complete | 50.1% | — |
| CadEval | 12% | — |
| HumanEval+ | 68.9% | — |
| MBPP+ | 68.8% | — |
Reasoning GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), GPT-5.5 Instant: 24.9 (#155)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1174 | 1426 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 118.35 | 142.52 |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | 34.2% | — |
| CritPt | — | 0% |
| Chess Puzzles | — | 12% |
| DTBench | 50.1% | — |
| LMCA | 8.8% | — |
| ForecastBench | 53.2 | — |
| WinoGrande | 74.2% | — |
Math GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), GPT-5.5 Instant: 26.5 (#259)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 1.8% | 68.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1188 | 1420 |
| FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3) | — | 26.3% |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 | — | 2.4% |
| MATH Level 5 | 14.9% | — |
Knowledge GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), GPT-5.5 Instant: 48.9 (#74)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 36.3% | 82.5% |
| LMArena Expert | 1148 | 1409 |
| Confabulations | 34.2% | — |
| MMLU | 73.8% | — |
Multimodal GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), GPT-5.5 Instant: 40.0 (#52)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Vision | 950 | 1250 |
| LMArena Document | — | 1403 |
| ScienceQA | 72% | — |
Multilingual GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), GPT-5.5 Instant: 52.8 (#80)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1178 | 1417 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1155 | 1456 |
| LMArena French | 1195 | 1428 |
| LMArena German | 1174 | 1411 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1102 | 1408 |
| LMArena Korean | 1109 | 1392 |
| LMArena Russian | 1204 | 1431 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1166 | 1429 |
Instruction Following GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), GPT-5.5 Instant: 74.2 (#100)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1173 | 1406 |
Long Context GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), GPT-5.5 Instant: 43.4 (#96)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1190 | 1422 |
Writing & Preference GPT-5.5 Instant leads
Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), GPT-5.5 Instant: 61.8 (#85)
| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | GPT-5.5 Instant |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1195 | 1419 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1157 | 1419 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1190 | 1433 |
| EQ-Bench Creative Writing | 717 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude 3 Haiku better than GPT-5.5 Instant?
GPT-5.5 Instant is the stronger model overall, scoring 42.7 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.
Is Claude 3 Haiku or GPT-5.5 Instant better for coding?
GPT-5.5 Instant scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.3 versus 26.4 in the Noometry coding category.
How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and GPT-5.5 Instant share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5.5 Instant has 27.