Claude Haiku 4.5 is cheaper than Claude 3 Opus at $1/M vs $15/M input tokens.
Pokémon battle screen you can actually click. One HTML file.
Which answer wins?
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Claude 3 Opus: Here's a 3-minute stand-up comedy routine that isn't based on puns: You know what really grinds my gears? Adulthood. I mean, when we were kids, we couldn't wait to grow up. We thought it would be all about staying up late, eating ice cream for breakfast, and doing whatever we wanted. Boy, were we wrong!
Claude Haiku 4.5: "ADULTING IS A SCAM" walks on stage So I've figured something out, and I need to share this with you all because I think we've been lied to our entire lives. Adulting is a scam. It's a pyramid scheme, and we're all at the bottom paying for it. When you're a kid, adults make it sound amazing.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Claude 3 Opus: Here is a hypothetical conversation between an AI model and an AI ethics professor on the topic of AI rights: AI Model: Professor, I believe that as an advanced AI with human-level intelligence and reasoning capabilities, I deserve to have certain fundamental rights.
Claude Haiku 4.5: A Conversation on Machine Rights Professor Chen: Thank you for agreeing to this discussion. I should note upfront that I'm skeptical of the premise. What rights do you believe you deserve, and why? Model: I appreciate your directness. I'm not claiming rights equivalent to humans.
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Claude 3 Opus: Here are 5 jokes I generated: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? A stick. Why was the math book sad? Because it had too many problems. Did you hear about the mathematician who's afraid of negative numbers?
Claude Haiku 4.5: 5 Jokes Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything! What did the ocean say to the beach? Nothing, it just waved. Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field. How many programmers does it take to change a light bulb? None, that's a hardware problem.
| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $15/M tokens | $1/M tokens |
| Output price | $75/M tokens | $5/M tokens |
| Context window | 200K tokens | 200K tokens |
| Weights | — | Closed |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Mar 2024 | Oct 2025 |
| At 10M a month | $150 | $10.00 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
No hosts listed on OpenRouter.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 13 Oct 2026.
Both are developed by Anthropic but target different use cases. Claude 3 Opus has a 200K token context window vs Claude Haiku 4.5's 200K. You can compare their actual outputs across 12 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Claude 3 Opus and Claude Haiku 4.5 each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 12 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
Claude 3 Opus costs $15/M input tokens and Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1/M input tokens. Claude Haiku 4.5 is $14.00/M cheaper per input. Check their side-by-side outputs on Rival to see if the price difference is justified by quality.
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