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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

List-price comparison ·Claude Haiku 4.5 details ·GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct is the cheapest — 19% less than the priciest here ($260.00/mo vs $320.00/mo).

 Claude Haiku 4.5GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct
Input / 1M tokens$1.00$1.50
Output / 1M tokens$5.00$2.00
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0032$0.0026
Context window200k tokens4,095 tokens
Max output64k tokens4,096 tokens
Quality score70/10068/100
TierFlashFlash
ProviderAnthropicOpenAI

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Haiku 4.5GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct
1,000$3.20$2.60
10,000$32.00$26.00
100,000$320.00$260.00
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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.

GPT-3.5 Turbo Instruct

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