Model comparison

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Last verified . 11 shared benchmarks.

Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic

39.5

Rank #165 Confirmed

Summary

  • They share 11 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
  • The widest gap is in agentic & tool use, where Claude Haiku 4.5 leads 33.6 to 15.7.
  • The biggest single-benchmark swing is Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard: 68.7% for Claude Haiku 4.5 and 10% for Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1.
  • Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 has downloadable open weights; the other is API-only.

Side by side

Claude Haiku 4.5 and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 specifications
Claude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
ProviderAnthropicNVIDIA
Noometry Index39.536.7
Released2025-10-15—
WeightsProprietaryOpen
Context window200K—
Max output64K—
Input $ / M tokens$1—
Output $ / M tokens$5—
Results tracked5311

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Category by category

Coding Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.0 (#78), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 38.4 (#177)

Coding benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Coding14531312
SWE-bench Verified (bash only)66.6%—
LMArena WebDev1330—
SWE-bench Multilingual64.7%—
SciCode43.3%—
WeirdML45.4%—
ALE-Bench653.48—

Agentic & Tool Use Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.6 (#52), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 15.7 (#149)

Agentic & Tool Use benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard68.7%10%
Terminal-Bench35.5%—
DeepResearch Bench45.5%—
BALROG31.2%—
ExploitBench13.7%—
Vending-Bench 2458.89—

Reasoning Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#320), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 26.3 (#134)

Reasoning benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Hard Prompts14201316
ARC-AGI-24%—
NYT Connections (extended)14.3%—
ARC-AGI-147.7%—
CritPt0%—
Chess Puzzles8%—
DTBench73.6%—
LMCA30.9%—
Epoch Capabilities Index142.41—
ForecastBench61.4—

Math Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.9 (#78), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 37.5 (#152)

Math benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Math13961360
OTIS Mock AIME 2024-202566.7%—
Omni-MATH56.1%—
MATH Level 596.4%—
FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set)5.9%—
FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1)2.1%—

Knowledge Not comparable

Claude Haiku 4.5: 37.7 (#153), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: —

Knowledge benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
GPQA Diamond71.2%—
SimpleQA Verified13.2%—
MMLU-Pro77.7%—
Vectara Hallucination Rate9.8%—
GPQA (HELM)60.5%—
LMArena Expert1442—

Multimodal Not comparable

Claude Haiku 4.5: 26.8 (#118), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: —

Multimodal benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
Blueprint-Bench 20%—
LMArena Document1420—

Multilingual Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 49.9 (#129), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 43.1 (#187)

Multilingual benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Non-English13771282
LMArena Russian13811284
LMArena Chinese1417—
LMArena French1408—
LMArena German1375—
LMArena Japanese1339—
LMArena Korean1347—
LMArena Spanish1420—

Instruction Following Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.4 (#149), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 69.0 (#178)

Instruction Following benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Instruction Following14141308
IFEval80.1%—

Long Context Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#92), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 39.5 (#177)

Long Context benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Longer Query14271299

Writing & Preference Claude Haiku 4.5 leads

Claude Haiku 4.5: 57.9 (#123), Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1: 52.2 (#175)

Writing & Preference benchmarks
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1
LMArena Text13961320
LMArena Creative Writing13721314
LMArena Multi-Turn14091317
WildBench83.9%—
EQ-Bench 41064—

Frequently asked questions

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 36.7 on the Noometry Index.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 better for coding?

Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 38.4 in the Noometry coding category.

How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 4.5 and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 share?

11 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Llama 3.1 Nemotron Ultra 253b v1 has 11.

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