Claude 3 HaikuvsGPT-4.1
Claude 3 Haiku | GPT-4.1 | |
|---|---|---|
| API pricingUSD per 1M tokens · lower wins | ||
Input priceWhat you pay for everything you send the model — your question, plus any documents or earlier conversation you include with it. | — | $2.00 |
Output priceWhat you pay for the text the model writes back. It is normally the dearer half: producing an answer costs more than reading one. | — | $8.00 |
Cached input priceA reduced rate for text you send over and over. If every request starts with the same instructions or the same document, the provider keeps a copy ready and charges less to read it again. | — | $0.50 |
| Benchmarks | ||
BullshitBench v2Nonsense detection — Given a confidently-worded but nonsensical prompt, does the AI spot that it makes no sense and push back — instead of playing along and inventing an answer? The score is how often it clearly called out the nonsense. Higher is better. | 10% | 14% |
| BenchmarksPublished by one model only | ||
GPQA DiamondScience — Graduate-level science questions in biology, physics, and chemistry — hard enough that subject-matter PhDs score around 65%. Higher is better. | 33.3% | — |
| Overview | ||
| Company | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Release date | Mar 4 2024 | Apr 14 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
Frequently asked questions
GPT-4.1 leads Claude 3 Haiku on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (BullshitBench v2). Only GPT-4.1 has a verified first-party API price: $2.00 per million input tokens and $8.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude 3 Haiku. Claude 3 Haiku shipped 406 days before GPT-4.1, so benchmark comparisons should account for the intervening progress.
Published specifications for these two models are limited — see each model page for the latest details.
On BullshitBench v2, GPT-4.1 leads at 14% vs Claude 3 Haiku at 10%.
Claude 3 Haiku was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
GPT-4.1 was released by OpenAI on Apr 14 2025.
Only GPT-4.1 has a verified first-party API price: $2.00 per million input tokens and $8.00 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude 3 Haiku. Rates are pay-as-you-go API prices verified on August 18, 2026.