Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Compare Claude Haiku 4.5 by Anthropic against Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B by Qwen, context windows of 200K vs 262K, tested across 53 shared challenges.
Our Verdict
Claude Haiku 4.5
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3BRunner-up
No community votes yet. On paper, Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge — bigger model tier, major provider backing.
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is 5.2x 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
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
Input
$0.16
6.2× cheaper
Output
$0.97
5.2× cheaper
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B is cheaper on both — 6.2× input, 5.2× output
Writing DNA
Style Comparison
Similarity
43%
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B uses 7.8x more emoji
Claude Haiku 4.5
Qwen: Qwen3.6 35B A3B
61%Vocabulary59%
47wSentence Length15w
0.64Hedging0.31
5.1Bold4.9
6.3Lists2.7
0.20Emoji1.60
2.46Headings0.75
0.17Transitions0.05
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Research
What we learned reading every model
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