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Claude 3 Haiku vs Kimi Linear

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Anthropic
Claude 3 Haiku
Moonshot AI
Kimi Linear
Overview
CompanyAnthropicMoonshot AI
Release dateMar 4 2024Oct 2025
Model type
Open sourceNoYes
Specifications
Parameters
48B
Context window
Benchmarks
Science reasoning
GPQA Diamond
33.3%
Software engineering
SWE-Bench Verified
Multimodal understanding
MMMU
Timeline
Release gapClaude 3 Haiku shipped 576 days before Kimi Linear

Which is better: Claude 3 Haiku or Kimi Linear?

Claude 3 Haiku leads Kimi Linear on 1 of the tracked benchmarks (GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, MMMU). Claude 3 Haiku shipped 576 days before Kimi Linear, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.

Kimi Linear is an open-source / open-weight model; Claude 3 Haiku is proprietary.

Direct benchmark comparisons are unavailable — at least one of these models has not published scores on GPQA Diamond, SWE-Bench Verified, or MMMU.

Frequently asked questions

When was Claude 3 Haiku released?
Claude 3 Haiku was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
When was Kimi Linear released?
Kimi Linear was released by Moonshot AI on Oct 2025.
Is Claude 3 Haiku or Kimi Linear open source?
Kimi Linear is an open-source / open-weight model released by Moonshot AI. Claude 3 Haiku is a proprietary model released by Anthropic.

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