Claude 3 Haikuvso4-mini
Claude 3 Haiku | o4-mini | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | — | $1.10 |
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. | — | $4.40 |
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. | — | $0.275 |
Cheapest inputLowest input rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. The cheapest endpoint may run a quantised build or a shorter context — see "Available from" on the model page. | $0.25Amazon Bedrock | — |
Cheapest outputLowest output rate across third-party providers, excluding the lab itself. May come from a different provider than the cheapest input. | $1.25Amazon Bedrock | — |
| 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% | 8% |
| 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 16 2025 |
| Access | Proprietary | Proprietary |
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Frequently asked questions
Claude 3 Haiku leads o4-mini on 1 of the 1 benchmark they both report (BullshitBench v2). Only o4-mini has a verified first-party API price: $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 per million output tokens. No pay-as-you-go API rate is tracked for Claude 3 Haiku. Claude 3 Haiku shipped 408 days before o4-mini, 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, Claude 3 Haiku leads at 10% vs o4-mini at 8%.
Claude 3 Haiku was released by Anthropic on Mar 4 2024.
o4-mini was released by OpenAI on Apr 16 2025.
Only o4-mini has a verified first-party API price: $1.10 per million input tokens and $4.40 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.