Model comparison

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-5 Mini

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 39.3 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 45 shared benchmarks.

Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic

39.3

Rank #155 Confirmed

GPT-5 Mini OpenAI

41.7

Rank #115 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 45 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher in 5 categories and GPT-5 Mini in 5 categories; 9 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in reasoning, where GPT-5 Mini leads 24.1 to 15.1.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is SWE-bench Multilingual: 64.7% for Claude Haiku 4.5 and 39.7% for GPT-5 Mini.
  • GPT-5 Mini is cheaper at $0.25 / $2 per million input/output tokens, against $1 / $5 for Claude Haiku 4.5.
  • GPT-5 Mini accepts more context: 400K tokens versus 200K.

Side by side

Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5 Mini specifications
Claude Haiku 4.5GPT-5 Mini
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI
Noometry Index39.341.7
Released2025-10-152025-08-07
WeightsProprietaryProprietary
Context window200K400K
Max output64K128K
Input $ / M tokens$1$0.25
Output $ / M tokens$5$2
Results tracked5360

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Category by category

Coding Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.9 (#71), GPT-5 Mini: 40.0 (#134)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-5 Mini
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66.6%59.8%
SWE-bench Multilingual64.7%39.7%
SciCode43.3%39.2%
WeirdML45.4%52.7%
LMArena Coding14541406
ALE-Bench653.48799.77
SWE-bench Verified—64.7%
LMArena WebDev1330—
AlgoTune—1.38

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.5 (#50), GPT-5 Mini: 31.0 (#64)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-5 Mini
Terminal-Bench35.5%34.8%
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard68.7%55.5%
Vending-Bench 2458.89-31.18
DeepResearch Bench45.5%—
BALROG31.2%—
ExploitBench13.7%—

Reasoning GPT-5 Mini leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#310), GPT-5 Mini: 24.1 (#153)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-5 Mini
ARC-AGI-24%4.4%
ARC-AGI-147.7%54.3%
CritPt0%0%
Chess Puzzles8%30%
LMArena Hard Prompts14201380
DTBench73.6%80.5%
LMCA30.9%34.2%
Epoch Capabilities Index142.42145.51
ForecastBench61.461
Kagi LLM Benchmark—70.3%
NYT Connections (extended)14.3%—
EnigmaEval—8.2%
Mystery Game Puzzles—10%

Math GPT-5 Mini leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.0 (#69), GPT-5 Mini: 46.3 (#59)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-5 Mini
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.7%86.7%
Omni-MATH56.1%72.2%
LMArena Math13951377
MATH Level 596.4%97.8%
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%27.2%
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%6.3%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1-3)—46.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4—12.2%
ProofBench—9%

Knowledge GPT-5 Mini leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 37.6 (#146), GPT-5 Mini: 45.5 (#80)

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-5 Mini
GPQA Diamond71.2%75%
SimpleQA Verified13.2%21.6%
MMLU-Pro77.7%83.5%
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.8%12.9%
GPQA (HELM)60.5%75.6%
LMArena Expert14431377
Humanity's Last Exam—19.4%
Confabulations—13.3%

Multimodal GPT-5 Mini leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 27.0 (#111), GPT-5 Mini: 35.0 (#80)

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Vision—1202
VPCT—40.2%
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1420—

Multilingual Too close to call

Claude Haiku 4.5: 50.1 (#124), GPT-5 Mini: 49.1 (#131)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Non-English13761363
LMArena Chinese14151387
LMArena French14081385
LMArena German13771366
LMArena Japanese13391342
LMArena Korean13461306
LMArena Russian13801362
LMArena Spanish14201355

Instruction Following GPT-5 Mini leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.6 (#144), GPT-5 Mini: 76.4 (#43)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-5 Mini
IFEval80.1%92.7%
LMArena Instruction Following14141357

Long Context Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#86), GPT-5 Mini: 41.9 (#127)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Longer Query14271355
Fiction.LiveBench—69.4%

Writing & Preference Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 58.1 (#119), GPT-5 Mini: 55.4 (#143)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-5 Mini
LMArena Text13961373
LMArena Creative Writing13711325
WildBench83.9%85.5%
LMArena Multi-Turn14091363
Short-Story Creative Writing—83.1%
EQ-Bench Creative Writing—1313
EQ-Bench 41064—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini is the stronger model overall, scoring 41.7 to 39.3 on the Noometry Index.

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or GPT-5 Mini?

GPT-5 Mini is cheaper. It lists at $0.25 per million input tokens and $2 per million output tokens; Claude Haiku 4.5 lists at $1 and $5.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or GPT-5 Mini better for coding?

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 43.9 versus 40.0 in the Noometry coding category.

Which has the bigger context window?

GPT-5 Mini does, with 400K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 4.5 and GPT-5 Mini share?

45 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53 scored results on Noometry and GPT-5 Mini has 60.

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