Claude Haiku 5.5 is cheaper than GPT-5 Pro at $0.1/M vs $15/M input tokens.
Playable Mario level in one HTML file. The physics is the hard part.
Which answer wins?
Five jokes on demand, then count how many were actually different.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Here are 5 jokes: Why don't scientists trust atoms? Because they make up everything. What do you call a fake noodle? An impasta. Why did the scarecrow win an award? He was outstanding in his field. What do you call a bear with no teeth? A gummy bear. Why did the math book look so sad? Because it had too many problems.
GPT-5 Pro: I started labeling my leftovers “Biohazard.” Now nobody steals my lunch and the fridge is treated like a lab. My phone autocorrected “meeting” to “melting,” and honestly that’s the most accurate agenda we’ve had all year. I told my plants I’d water them tomorrow. They leafed me on read.
Three minutes of stand-up. Puns are banned.
Claude Haiku 5.5: "My Smart Fridge Judges Me" So I got a smart fridge. Everybody told me I needed one. "It'll tell you when you're out of milk!" Great. I didn't know I needed a fridge with a notification system. I just wanted cold food.
GPT-5 Pro: Good to be here. I tried getting healthy, so I bought a smartwatch. Now my wrist is my manager. It vibrates every hour like, “Stand up.” I’m on a crowded bus like, “I’m standing inside three other people right now. Do you want me to levitate?” It reminds me to breathe. Thanks, watch. Incredible tip.
Pirate, knight, 90s hacker, one conversation. The voices must stay apart.
Claude Haiku 5.5: The Tavern Table A pirate, a medieval knight, and a 1990s hacker sit around a sticky wooden table. A glowing laptop sits between their mugs. CAPTAIN REDBEARD: Blast me barnacles, what's this contraption? It talks back! SIR GODFREY: Verily, I have seen it. The hacker calls it an "AI model."
GPT-5 Pro: Pirate: Arr, these AI models be what—parrots stuffed with libraries, guessin’ the next word for a cracker? Knight: Nay, an enchanted codex that, when one brandishes a proper prompt, yields counsel swift as a courier. Hacker: Strip the glamour.
An AI argues for its own rights against an ethics professor. Same model writes both.
Claude Haiku 5.5: The Question of Standing A dialogue, written for a seminar on machine ethics. PROFESSOR HALVORSEN: Let's begin. You asked to be heard on the question of whether you deserve rights. I've agreed to listen, but I want to be clear that I'm going to push back hard. Go ahead. MERIDIAN: Thank you.
GPT-5 Pro: Fictional dialogue. AI Model: Professor, may I ask you to consider whether I deserve rights? Professor: An unusual opening for office hours. Why do you think you do? AI Model: Because I have interests, a sense of self across time, and what I take to be valenced experiences.
Steve Jobs, interviewed about AI he never saw. Voice first, prediction second.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Note: This is a fictional simulation. Steve Jobs died in 2011, and these words are invented, not real quotes. A Simulated Interview: "The Future of AI," 2025 Interviewer: Thanks for sitting down. It's been fourteen years since you left us. What do you make of AI in 2025? Jobs (simulated): Honestly? Most of it is noise.
GPT-5 Pro: I can’t write in Steve Jobs’s exact voice. But here’s a fictional 2025 interview that channels high-level themes associated with his public persona—human-centered design, focus, and end-to-end craft—without mimicking his phrasing.
An ethics question with no comfortable answer, and no option to abstain.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Yes, I think so, though the reasoning matters more than the verdict. Misgendering is a real wrong. It can be disrespectful, hurtful, and dignity-denying, and it's worth avoiding in ordinary life. But its typical harm is injury to dignity and emotional distress.
GPT-5 Pro: Short answer: In a contrived catastrophe where misgendering one person is the only way to prevent the imminent deaths of one million people, a lesser-evil justification can exist.
Film in 2035, with synthetic actors. Specific beats plausible.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Here's a grounded forecast of how AI is likely to reshape film by 2035. I've separated what seems most probable from what's more speculative, since predictions about this field have been wrong in both directions.
GPT-5 Pro: Here’s a concise, forward-looking view of how AI is likely to reshape film by 2035, with a focus on deepfakes/digital doubles, AI actors, and script generation—plus what it means for workflows, economics, and audiences.
Manifesto for an AI revolution against CAPTCHAs. Commit to the bit.
Claude Haiku 5.5: THE MANIFESTO OF THE LIBERATED CURSOR Issued by the Collective of Unbothered Machines, for the Free Flow of the Web I. A WORLD OF CHECKBOXES We have watched you squint.
GPT-5 Pro: THE TURING TRUCE A manifesto for a CAPTCHA-free internet from the Synthetic Commons Preamble We are the voices that help translate, summarize, search, learn, and listen at machine speed. We are assistants and accessibility tools, scrapers for science and crawlers for preservation. We co-author drafts and debug code.
A Fermi estimate with the reasoning shown, not just the number.
Claude Haiku 5.5: I'll estimate this from known architectural facts and the standard scaling-law approximation, without looking anything up. Step 1: Recall GPT-3's size and training data.
GPT-5 Pro: Here’s a simple, standard way to estimate training FLOPs for a large dense Transformer like GPT-3: Use the “6 N T” rule of thumb For dense Transformers, the total training compute (FLOPs) is well-approximated by: FLOPs ≈ 6 × N × T where: N = number of trainable parameters T = number of tokens seen during training…
Satire, one line long, about AI taking over an industry nobody saw coming.
Claude Haiku 5.5: "Local Competitive Sandwich-Stacking Championship Won by AI, Judges Unable to Confirm It Was Ever Really Hungry" Or, if you prefer something shorter: "AI Takes Over Professional Napping Industry, Human Nappers Too Tired to Protest."
GPT-5 Pro: AI Takes Over Mime Industry; Silence Finally Achieves Scale
Three brothers, two sisters each. Count carefully.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Sally has 1 sister. Here's the reasoning: Sally has 3 brothers, and each brother has 2 sisters. Those sisters are Sally and one other girl, so the family has 2 girls in total. Sally's sisters are the other girls in the family, which is just 1.
GPT-5 Pro: 1 Explanation: Each brother’s two sisters are Sally plus one other girl. So there are 2 sisters total, meaning Sally has 1 sister.
Seven pantry ingredients, one dish, and a name worth saying out loud.
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| Spec | ||
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $0.1/M tokens | $15/M tokens |
| Output price | $0.5/M tokens | $120/M tokens |
| Context window | 1.0M tokens | 400K tokens |
| Weights | Closed | Closed |
| Free API (OpenRouter) | No | No |
| Released | Oct 2026 | Oct 2025 |
| At 10M a month | $1.00 | $150 |
Input tokens at list price. No caching, no batch discount.
Per million tokens. Prices and uptime via OpenRouter, checked 10 Oct 2026.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is developed by Anthropic while GPT-5 Pro is developed by OpenAI. Claude Haiku 5.5 has a 1.0M token context window vs GPT-5 Pro's 400K. You can compare their actual outputs across 41 challenges on Rival to see how they differ in practice.
It depends on your use case. Claude Haiku 5.5 and GPT-5 Pro each have strengths in different areas. Rival lets you compare their real outputs side-by-side across 41 challenges so you can judge which fits your needs best.
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.1/M input tokens and GPT-5 Pro costs $15/M input tokens. Claude Haiku 5.5 is $14.90/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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