Models

Anthropic Opus 4.6 vs Claude 3 Haiku 20240307

Compare Anthropic Opus 4.6 from Anthropic and Claude 3 Haiku 20240307 from Anthropic on key metrics including benchmarks, price, context length, and other model features. Access both models and hundreds of others through the AIHubMix API.

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Anthropic Opus 4.6
Anthropic · text, image → text

Claude Opus 4.6 is Anthropic’s latest state-of-the-art reasoning model. It features an adaptive “thinking” mode that dynamically decides when to think and how much to think. At the default effort level (high), Claude will almost always engage in thinking. At lower effort levels, it may skip thinking for simple problems. ⚠️ The minimum cache token for claude-opus-4-6 has been increased from 1,024 to 4,096 tokens.

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M
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Claude 3 Haiku 20240307
Anthropic · text, image → text

Input$0.275 /M
Output$1.375 /M

Pricing & Specifications

Prices are per million tokens. Time to First Token and throughput are rolling averages measured on AIHubMix.

Anthropic Opus 4.6
Claude 3 Haiku 20240307
Input /M
$5
$0.275
Output /M
$25
$1.375
Cache read /M
$0.5
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Context length
200,000
0
Max output
32,000
0
Time to First Token
3.1 s
0.8 s
Throughput
39.7 tok/s
67.2 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimage
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
Released
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Promotional prices show the discounted rate; see each model page for promotion windows.

Activity Past 30 Days

Daily traffic served through AIHubMix — how demand for each model is trending.

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Tokens / day

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Requests / day

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Performance Past 3 Days

Measured on real AIHubMix traffic, hourly buckets. Gaps mean no traffic in that hour.

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Throughput (tok/s)

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TTFT (s)

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Uptime (%)

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LMArena Benchmarks

LMArena ratings by capability (Bradley-Terry, commonly called Elo). Higher is better.

Text
anthropic-opus-4-6claude-3-haiku-20240307
11801280138014801580
Overall
12611499
Coding
13001548
Math
12311504
Hard prompts
12641528
Instruction following
12441501
Multi-turn
12431510
Creative writing
12151478
Longer query
12651519
Chinese
12471549
English
12701508
Vision
anthropic-opus-4-6claude-3-haiku-20240307
980108011801280
Overall
10001297
OCR
13131313
Diagram
13331333
Homework
13141314

Source: LMArena (arena.ai) leaderboard, imported by AIHubMix. Models without published ratings are omitted per chart.

Cost calculator

Estimate your monthly bill for the same workload on each model.

Claude 3 Haiku 20240307
$37.13 /mo
Anthropic Opus 4.6
$675 /mo

Monthly = daily × 30. Discounted rates applied where a promotion is active.

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Anthropic Opus 4.6, Claude 3 Haiku 20240307?

Claude 3 Haiku 20240307: $1.375/M output tokens; Anthropic Opus 4.6: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Anthropic Opus 4.6: 1548; Claude 3 Haiku 20240307: 1300 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Claude 3 Haiku 20240307: 0.8s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude 3 Haiku 20240307 at 67.2 tok/s and Anthropic Opus 4.6 at 39.7 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Anthropic Opus 4.6 accepts text and image input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Claude 3 Haiku 20240307 accepts text and image input.

Can I call Anthropic Opus 4.6 and Claude 3 Haiku 20240307 with the same API key?

Yes. AIHubMix serves every model on this page behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, so switching between them is a one-line change to the model field — no second account, key or SDK.

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