Model comparison

Claude 3 Haiku vs Qwen3.6 Flash

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 5 shared benchmarks.

Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic

25.9

Rank #340 Confirmed

Qwen3.6 Flash Alibaba (Qwen)

38.8

Rank #182 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 5 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude 3 Haiku scores higher in 0 categories and Qwen3.6 Flash in 3 categories; 3 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in math, where Qwen3.6 Flash leads 39.0 to 9.8.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 1.8% for Claude 3 Haiku and 84.4% for Qwen3.6 Flash.

Side by side

Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen3.6 Flash specifications
Claude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
ProviderAnthropicAlibaba (Qwen)
Noometry Index25.938.8
Released2024-03-072026-04-27
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window—1M
Max output—66K
Input $ / M tokens—$0.19
Output $ / M tokens—$1.13
Results tracked3713

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Category by category

Coding Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 26.4 (#325), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
WeirdML9.8%—
BigCodeBench Instruct39.4%—
LMArena Coding1199—
BigCodeBench Complete50.1%—
CadEval12%—
ALE-Bench—326.4
HumanEval+68.9%—
MBPP+68.8%—

Reasoning Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 16.3 (#307), Qwen3.6 Flash: 29.0 (#96)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
DTBench50.1%77.1%
LMCA8.8%31%
Epoch Capabilities Index118.35143.26
SimpleBench—35.2%
Kagi LLM Benchmark34.2%—
Chess Puzzles—20%
LMArena Hard Prompts1174—
Mystery Game Puzzles—18%
ForecastBench53.2—
WinoGrande74.2%—

Math Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 9.8 (#319), Qwen3.6 Flash: 39.0 (#117)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-20251.8%84.4%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—22.5%
LMArena Math1188—
MATH Level 514.9%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)—10.3%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)—0%

Knowledge Qwen3.6 Flash leads

Claude 3 Haiku: 17.3 (#285), Qwen3.6 Flash: 42.1 (#100)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
GPQA Diamond36.3%83.3%
SimpleQA Verified—15.9%
Confabulations34.2%—
LMArena Expert1148—
MMLU73.8%—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 23.6 (#128), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Vision950—
ScienceQA72%—

Multilingual Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.0 (#243), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Non-English1178—
LMArena Chinese1155—
LMArena French1195—
LMArena German1174—
LMArena Japanese1102—
LMArena Korean1109—
LMArena Russian1204—
LMArena Spanish1166—

Instruction Following Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 61.3 (#247), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Instruction Following1173—

Long Context Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 36.1 (#237), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Longer Query1190—

Writing & Preference Not comparable

Claude 3 Haiku: 29.7 (#291), Qwen3.6 Flash: —

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude 3 HaikuQwen3.6 Flash
LMArena Text1195—
LMArena Creative Writing1157—
EQ-Bench Creative Writing717—
LMArena Multi-Turn1190—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude 3 Haiku better than Qwen3.6 Flash?

Qwen3.6 Flash is the stronger model overall, scoring 38.8 to 25.9 on the Noometry Index.

How many benchmarks do Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen3.6 Flash share?

5 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude 3 Haiku has 37 scored results on Noometry and Qwen3.6 Flash has 13.

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