Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku

Public pricingIntelligence 67/100Large memoryVisionTool use

Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku is a multimodal model for vision-language understanding. It combines multimodal input handling and image understanding with a 200K tokens context window and a low-cost profile. Use it for vision-language understanding and content analysis when latency, cost, and throughput matters.

Input

$0.25/1M

Output

$1.25/1M

Cached

$0.03/1M

Batch

$0.13/1M

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Technical specifications

Claude 3 Haiku at a glance.

Memory

200,000

tokens

Max reply

4,096

tokens

Memory tier

Large

an entire book or large codebase

Tokenizer

anthropic

Released

Mar 2024

Training cutoff

Aug 2023

Availability

Public pricing

Status

active

Benchmarks

Quality benchmarks

Independent evaluations from public leaderboards. Higher is better.

  • mmlu

    75.2

  • gpqa_diamond

    33.3

  • humaneval

    75.9

  • chatbot_arena_elo

    1179

What it can do

Capabilities & limits.

  • Understands images
  • Deep step-by-step thinking
  • Uses tools / calls functions
  • Strict JSON output
  • Streams replies
  • Fine-tunable on your data

When to pick Claude 3 Haiku

  • Screenshot analysis, image understanding, or document OCR.
  • Agentic workflows that call tools or APIs.
  • Long documents, full codebases, or extensive chat histories.
  • High-volume workloads where unit cost matters.

When to look elsewhere

  • Very latency-sensitive, real-time apps where every millisecond counts.

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FAQ

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At a typical workload of 50,000 conversations a month with 1,500-token prompts and 800-token replies, Claude 3 Haiku costs roughly $69 per month. Input is $0.25 /1M tokens and output is $1.25 /1M tokens.
Claude 3 Haiku has a 200,000-token context window (large memory — an entire book or large codebase). That means you can fit about 37,500 words of input and history in a single call.
Beyond text generation, Claude 3 Haiku supports understanding images, calling functions / tools, strict JSON output. It streams replies by default.
Claude 3 Haiku was released in March 2024, with training data cut off around August 2023.
Models in a similar class include Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview, GPT-5 Mini, GPT-5.1-Codex-Mini. The "Similar models" section below this FAQ links into each.

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