Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5

Side-by-side specs, pricing, and benchmarks. Pick a winner for your team's use case.

Use it in a Space

Spin up a Switchy Space with either model — your whole team @-mentions it with shared context, pooled credits, one memory.

Pricing
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5
Input $/Mtok$1.00 · $5.00
Output $/Mtok$5.00 · $25.00
Context window
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5200K tokens
Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5200K tokens

Bars use square-root scaling so a 1M-token window doesn't crush a 200K one.

Release timeline
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5
2025-10-15
2025-11-24
2025-09-15today

Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5

Provider
anthropic
Context
200k
Input $/Mtok
$1.00
Output $/Mtok
$5.00
Max output
64000
Modalities
image, text

Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5

Provider
anthropic
Context
200k
Input $/Mtok
$5.00
Output $/Mtok
$25.00
Max output
64000
Modalities
file, image, text

Price delta

Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 is $4.00/Mtok cheaper than Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5 on input. Output: Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 is $20.00/Mtok cheaper than Anthropic: Claude Opus 4.5.

Which to pick

Pick **Claude Haiku 4.5** when latency or per-token cost is the constraint. At $0.80 in / $4 out per Mtok it is roughly nineteen times cheaper on input than Opus, and the response time difference is the gap between "feels like autocomplete" and "feels like waiting on a person." Pick **Claude Opus 4.5** when the request requires multi-step planning, dense reasoning, or careful long-document synthesis. At $15 in / $75 out per Mtok it is the most expensive Anthropic tier — reach for it on the turns where a wrong answer is more costly than a slow one. Both ship the same 200k context window, so the trade-off is purely depth-of-reasoning vs cost.
Data last verified 1 hour ago.Sources aggregated hourly to weekly. See docs/architecture/model-directory.md.