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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

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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 4.5Granite 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 window200k tokens131,072 tokens
Max output64k tokens117,964 tokens
Quality score70/10068/100
TierFlashFlash
ProviderAnthropicIBM Granite

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Haiku 4.5Granite 4.2 8B
1,000$3.20$0.172
10,000$32.00$1.72
100,000$320.00$17.20
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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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