Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-5 nano
Benchmarks, API pricing and specs, head to head. Data updated 2026-06-10.
Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic · Oct 2025
Anthropic's fast tier: Sonnet-4-class coding performance at $1/$5 and more than twice the speed.
GPT-5 nano
OpenAI · Aug 2025
OpenAI's cheapest model — $0.05 per million input tokens — for latency-critical routing, autocomplete and bulk tagging.
The verdict
These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: GPT-5 nano works out roughly 15x cheaper per blended million tokens. GPT-5 nano also takes 400K of context versus 200K for Claude Haiku 4.5.
Specs & pricing
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | GPT-5 nano | |
|---|---|---|
| modhub Index | — | — |
| Input price / 1M | $1 | $0.05 |
| Output price / 1M | $5 | $0.4 |
| Context window | 200K | 400K |
| Max output | 64K | 128K |
| Open weights | no | no |
| Reasoning model | yes | yes |
| Multimodal input | text, image | text, image |
| Knowledge cutoff | Feb 2025 | May 2024 |
| Released | Oct 2025 | Aug 2025 |
| Example monthly cost* | $17.50 | $1.10 |
* 10M input + 1.5M output tokens per month at list prices, no caching. Green = better value on that row.
Frequently asked questions
- Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or GPT-5 nano?
- These two models don't yet share verified results on the benchmarks we track, so judge them on specs, pricing and intended use. On price the gap is dramatic: GPT-5 nano works out roughly 15x cheaper per blended million tokens. GPT-5 nano also takes 400K of context versus 200K for Claude Haiku 4.5.
- Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or GPT-5 nano?
- Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1/$5 per million input/output tokens, while GPT-5 nano costs $0.05/$0.4. For a typical workload of 10M input and 1.5M output tokens per month, that's $17.50 versus $1.10.
- Which model is better for coding, Claude Haiku 4.5 or GPT-5 nano?
- We don't yet track SWE-bench Verified results for both models; check their individual pages for coding-related scores.