Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Compare Claude Haiku 4.5 by Anthropic against Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking by Qwen, context windows of 200K vs 66K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Haiku 4.5
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B ThinkingRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge — newer, bigger context window, major provider backing.
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is 3.3x cheaper per token — worth considering if cost matters.
Too close to call
API pricing
Cost per 1M tokens
Claude Haiku 4.5
Input
$1.00
Output
$5.00
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
Input
$0.15
6.7× cheaper
Output
$1.50
3.3× cheaper
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking is cheaper on both — 6.7× input, 3.3× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
50%
Claude Haiku 4.5 uses 2.9x more sentence length
Claude Haiku 4.5
Qwen3 Next 80B A3B Thinking
61%Vocabulary54%
47wSentence Length16w
0.64Hedging0.31
5.1Bold6.0
6.3Lists4.5
0.20Emoji0.58
2.46Headings0.88
0.17Transitions0.10
Based on 24 + 17 text responses
Research
What we learned reading every model
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