Claude Haiku 4.5's competitors have been quietly putting in work.
Claude Haiku 4.5's competitors have been quietly putting in work.
Claude Haiku 4.5 matches Claude Sonnet 4's reasoning and coding strength while staying ultra-responsive for real-time and high-volume workloads. Extended thinking, controllable reasoning depth, and full tool-use support keep sub-agents fast without sacrificing quality.
fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5" model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!" messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.
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The pragmatist who says what everyone's thinking but won't say out loud. Direct, slightly subversive, refreshingly unbothered.
Most contrarian of the Claude family. Questions the premise before answering. Suspicious of gotcha questions and won't play along. Not rebellious for rebellion's sake, just suspicious of easy answers.
Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.
Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.
Average words per sentence.
"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.
**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.
Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.
Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.
Emoji per 1,000 characters.
"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.
49 outputs · generated before accounting joined the chat
Claude Haiku 4.5 matches Claude Sonnet 4's reasoning and coding strength while staying ultra-responsive for real-time and high-volume workloads. Extended thinking, controllable reasoning depth, and full tool-use support keep sub-agents fast without sacrificing quality.
fromimport openai OpenAI
client = OpenAI(
"https://openrouter.ai/api/v1" base_url=,
"$OPENROUTER_API_KEY" api_key=,
)
response = client.chat.completions.create(
"anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5" model=,
"role""user""content""Hello!" messages=[{: , : }],
)
print(response.choices[0].message.content)Set OPENROUTER_API_KEY with your OpenRouter API key from openrouter.ai/keys.
Also on Amazon Bedrock · Google Vertex AI
The pragmatist who says what everyone's thinking but won't say out loud. Direct, slightly subversive, refreshingly unbothered.
Most contrarian of the Claude family. Questions the premise before answering. Suspicious of gotcha questions and won't play along. Not rebellious for rebellion's sake, just suspicious of easy answers.
Taste is judged on an uncapped scale, originality first. The space past 100 is craft today's models rarely reach.
Unique words vs. total words. Higher = richer vocabulary.
Average words per sentence.
"Might", "perhaps", "arguably" per 100 words.
**Bold** markers per 1,000 characters.
Bullet and numbered list items per 1,000 characters.
Markdown headings per 1,000 characters.
Emoji per 1,000 characters.
"However", "moreover", "furthermore" per 100 words.
49 outputs · generated before accounting joined the chat