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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Granite 4.2 8B
List-price comparison ·Claude Haiku 4.5 details ·Granite 4.2 8B details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Granite 4.2 8B is the cheapest — 95% less than the priciest here ($17.20/mo vs $320.00/mo).
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Granite 4.2 8B | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.00 | $0.060 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $0.250 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0032 | $0.0002 |
| Context window | 200k tokens | 131,072 tokens |
| Max output | 64k tokens | 117,964 tokens |
| Quality score | 70/100 | 68/100 |
| Tier | Flash | Flash |
| Provider | Anthropic | IBM Granite |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Granite 4.2 8B |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $3.20 | $0.172 |
| 10,000 | $32.00 | $1.72 |
| 100,000 | $320.00 | $17.20 |
Claude Haiku 4.5
Very low latency for high-volume, simple tasks — classification, short summaries, and lightweight chat where response time matters more than depth.
Noticeably weaker on multi-step reasoning and long-context synthesis; pairing with a larger model for escalation is common.
Granite 4.2 8B
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