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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8

Compare Claude Haiku 4.5 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 Haiku 4.5
Anthropic · text, image, pdf → text

Claude Haiku 4.5 is a fast, affordable, and highly capable AI model, excelling at coding and agentic tasks. Its combination of speed and low cost makes it ideal for powering real-time applications like chatbots, high-volume free services, and specialized "sub-agents" for complex tasks in coding, finance, and research. It can also handle common business tasks like creating office documents and assisting with strategy and analysis. ⚠️ The minimum cache token for claude-haiku-4-5 has been increased from 1,024 to 4,096 tokens.

Input$1.1 /M
Output$5.5 /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
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Pricing & Specifications

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

Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Opus 4.8
Input /M
$1.1
$5
Output /M
$5.5
$25
Cache read /M
-
$0.5
Context length
200,000
1,000,000
Max output
64,000
128,000
Time to First Token
0.5 s
1.1 s
Throughput
152.6 tok/s
82.6 tok/s
Modalities
textimagepdf
textimagepdf
Supported Parameters
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
thinkingtoolsfunction callingstructured outputs
API Formats
chat_completions · claude_api
Released
October 1, 2025
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
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1360142014801540
Overall
14131473
Coding
14811527
Math
13991474
Hard prompts
14411503
Instruction following
14161477
Multi-turn
14251495
Creative writing
13891465
Longer query
14371499
Chinese
14331523
English
14311480
WebDev Arena
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12801360144015201600
Overall
13291540
React
13261541
HTML
13171527
Gaming
13171573
Simulations
13101544
Data analytics
13411502

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 Haiku 4.5
$149 /mo
Claude Opus 4.8
$675 /mo

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

FAQ

Which is cheaper: Claude Haiku 4.5, Claude Opus 4.8?

Claude Haiku 4.5: $5.5/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 Haiku 4.5: 1481 (LMArena coding leaderboard).

Which responds faster?

Claude Haiku 4.5: 0.5s time to first token measured on AIHubMix; see the live performance charts above for how each model behaves across the day.

How large is each context window?

Claude Haiku 4.5 accepts 200,000 and Claude Opus 4.8 accepts 1,000,000 input tokens. Maximum output per request is 64,000 tokens on Claude Haiku 4.5 and 128,000 tokens on Claude Opus 4.8.

Which one generates tokens faster?

Claude Haiku 4.5 at 152.6 tok/s and Claude Opus 4.8 at 82.6 tok/s, measured as output throughput on AIHubMix — a separate metric from time to first token.

What inputs and capabilities does each model support?

Claude Haiku 4.5 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs; Claude Opus 4.8 accepts text, image and PDF input and supports thinking, tool calling, function calling and structured outputs.

Can I call Claude Haiku 4.5 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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