Models

Claude 3 Haiku 20240229 vs Claude Opus 4.8

Compare Claude 3 Haiku 20240229 from Anthropic and Claude Opus 4.8 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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Claude 3 Haiku 20240229
Anthropic · text, image → text

Input$0.275 /M
Output$0.275 /M
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Claude Opus 4.8
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic’s newest and most powerful publicly available model. It is suitable for the most complex tasks. It is Anthropic’s strongest model for complex reasoning, long-horizon agent programming, and highly autonomous work.claude-opus-4-8 does not display thought content by default; you need to set the additional parameter "display": "summarized" to enable it

Input$5 /M
Output$25 /M
Cache read$0.5 /M

Pricing & Specifications

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

Claude 3 Haiku 20240229
Claude Opus 4.8
Input /M
$0.275
$5
Output /M
$0.275
$25
Cache read /M
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$0.5
Context length
NaN
1,000,000
Max output
0
128,000
Time to First Token
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1.1 s
Throughput
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82.6 tok/s
Modalities
textimage
textimagepdf
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
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May 28, 2026

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
claude-3-haiku-20240229claude-opus-4-8
1180128013801480
Overall
12611473
Coding
13001527
Math
12311474
Hard prompts
12641503
Instruction following
12441477
Multi-turn
12431495
Creative writing
12151465
Longer query
12651499
Chinese
12471523
English
12701480
Vision
claude-3-haiku-20240229claude-opus-4-8
980108011801280
Overall
10001279
OCR
12941294
Diagram
13091309
Homework
13201320

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 20240229
$20.63 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude 3 Haiku 20240229, Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude 3 Haiku 20240229: $0.275/M output tokens; Claude Opus 4.8: $25/M. Use the cost calculator above to estimate your own workload.

How do their coding arena scores compare?

Claude Opus 4.8: 1527; Claude 3 Haiku 20240229: 1300 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude 3 Haiku 20240229 accepts text and image input; Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude 3 Haiku 20240229 and Claude Opus 4.8 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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