Model comparison
Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen Max
Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 34.7 on the Noometry Index.
Last verified . 21 shared benchmarks.
Summary
- They share 21 benchmarks with published results for both. Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher in 7 categories and Qwen Max in 1 category; 8 gaps are clear of the uncertainty.
- The widest gap is in math, where Claude Haiku 4.5 leads 44.9 to 22.3.
- The biggest single-benchmark swing is OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025: 66.7% for Claude Haiku 4.5 and 16.1% for Qwen Max.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 is cheaper at $1 / $5 per million input/output tokens, against $1.60 / $6.40 for Qwen Max.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 accepts more context: 200K tokens versus 33K.
Side by side
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Alibaba (Qwen) |
| Noometry Index | 39.5 | 34.7 |
| Released | 2025-10-15 | 2024-04-03 |
| Weights | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Context window | 200K | 33K |
| Max output | 64K | 8K |
| Input $ / M tokens | $1 | $1.60 |
| Output $ / M tokens | $5 | $6.40 |
| Results tracked | 53 | 23 |
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Category by category
Coding Claude Haiku 4.5 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.0 (#78), Qwen Max: 30.7 (#292)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Coding | 1453 | 1288 |
| SWE-bench Verified (bash only) | 66.6% | — |
| Aider Polyglot | — | 21.8% |
| LMArena WebDev | 1330 | — |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 64.7% | — |
| SciCode | 43.3% | — |
| WeirdML | 45.4% | — |
| ALE-Bench | 653.48 | — |
Agentic & Tool Use Not comparable
Claude Haiku 4.5: 33.6 (#52), Qwen Max: —
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Terminal-Bench | 35.5% | — |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard | 68.7% | — |
| DeepResearch Bench | 45.5% | — |
| BALROG | 31.2% | — |
| ExploitBench | 13.7% | — |
| Vending-Bench 2 | 458.89 | — |
Reasoning Qwen Max leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 15.1 (#320), Qwen Max: 25.1 (#151)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Hard Prompts | 1420 | 1269 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4% | — |
| NYT Connections (extended) | 14.3% | — |
| ARC-AGI-1 | 47.7% | — |
| CritPt | 0% | — |
| Chess Puzzles | 8% | — |
| DTBench | 73.6% | — |
| LMCA | 30.9% | — |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 142.41 | — |
| ForecastBench | 61.4 | — |
Math Claude Haiku 4.5 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 44.9 (#78), Qwen Max: 22.3 (#276)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME 2024-2025 | 66.7% | 16.1% |
| LMArena Math | 1396 | 1275 |
| MATH Level 5 | 96.4% | 67.2% |
| FrontierMath (Feb 2025 set) | 5.9% | 1% |
| Omni-MATH | 56.1% | — |
| FrontierMath Tier 4 (v1) | 2.1% | — |
Knowledge Claude Haiku 4.5 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 37.7 (#153), Qwen Max: 30.3 (#228)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 71.2% | 56.1% |
| LMArena Expert | 1442 | 1248 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 13.2% | — |
| MMLU-Pro | 77.7% | — |
| Vectara Hallucination Rate | 9.8% | — |
| GPQA (HELM) | 60.5% | — |
Multimodal Not comparable
Claude Haiku 4.5: 26.8 (#118), Qwen Max: —
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| Blueprint-Bench 2 | 0% | — |
| LMArena Document | 1420 | — |
Multilingual Claude Haiku 4.5 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 49.9 (#129), Qwen Max: 41.8 (#202)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Non-English | 1377 | 1263 |
| LMArena Chinese | 1417 | 1254 |
| LMArena French | 1408 | 1330 |
| LMArena German | 1375 | 1254 |
| LMArena Japanese | 1339 | 1205 |
| LMArena Korean | 1347 | 1142 |
| LMArena Russian | 1381 | 1274 |
| LMArena Spanish | 1420 | 1290 |
Instruction Following Claude Haiku 4.5 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 71.4 (#149), Qwen Max: 66.5 (#208)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Instruction Following | 1414 | 1262 |
| IFEval | 80.1% | — |
Long Context Claude Haiku 4.5 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 43.6 (#92), Qwen Max: 39.4 (#180)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Longer Query | 1427 | 1288 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | — | 66.7% |
Writing & Preference Claude Haiku 4.5 leads
Claude Haiku 4.5: 57.9 (#123), Qwen Max: 47.8 (#205)
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen Max |
|---|---|---|
| LMArena Text | 1396 | 1282 |
| LMArena Creative Writing | 1372 | 1248 |
| LMArena Multi-Turn | 1409 | 1277 |
| WildBench | 83.9% | — |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1064 | — |
Frequently asked questions
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Qwen Max?
Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger model overall, scoring 39.5 to 34.7 on the Noometry Index.
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Qwen Max?
Claude Haiku 4.5 is cheaper. It lists at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens; Qwen Max lists at $1.60 and $6.40.
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 or Qwen Max better for coding?
Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on coding benchmarks: 44.0 versus 30.7 in the Noometry coding category.
Which has the bigger context window?
Claude Haiku 4.5 does, with 200K tokens against 33K.
How many benchmarks do Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen Max share?
21 benchmarks have published results for both models. Claude Haiku 4.5 has 53 scored results on Noometry and Qwen Max has 23.