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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3 8B

List-price comparison ·Claude Haiku 4.5 details ·Qwen3 8B details

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For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Qwen3 8B is the cheapest — 90% less than the priciest here ($32.24/mo vs $320.00/mo).

 Claude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 8B
Input / 1M tokens$1.00$0.117
Output / 1M tokens$5.00$0.455
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0032$0.0003
Context window200k tokens131,072 tokens
Max output64k tokens8,192 tokens
Quality score70/10072/100
TierFlashFlash
ProviderAnthropicQwen

Projected monthly cost

Requests / moClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 8B
1,000$3.20$0.3224
10,000$32.00$3.22
100,000$320.00$32.24
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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.

Qwen3 8B

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