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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking
List-price comparison ·Claude Haiku 4.5 details ·Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking is the cheapest — 67% less than the priciest here ($105.60/mo vs $320.00/mo).
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.00 | $0.180 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $2.10 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0032 | $0.0011 |
| Context window | 200k tokens | 131,072 tokens |
| Max output | 64k tokens | 32,768 tokens |
| Quality score | 70/100 | 68/100 |
| Tier | Flash | Flash |
| Provider | Anthropic | Qwen |
Projected monthly cost
| Requests / mo | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3 VL 8B Thinking |
|---|---|---|
| 1,000 | $3.20 | $1.06 |
| 10,000 | $32.00 | $10.56 |
| 100,000 | $320.00 | $105.60 |
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 VL 8B Thinking
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