Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3 Max
List-price comparison · Claude Haiku 4.5 details · Qwen3 Max details
For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Qwen3 Max costs 22% less — $249.60/mo vs $320.00/mo.
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3 Max | |
|---|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.00 | $0.780 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $3.90 |
| Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out) | $0.0032 | $0.0025 |
| Context window | 200k tokens | 262,144 tokens |
| Max output | 64k tokens | 32,768 tokens |
| Tier | Flash | Balanced |
| Provider | Anthropic | Qwen |
Projected monthly cost
Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.
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 Max
Strong multilingual reasoning (especially Chinese/English) and competitive coding benchmarks at open-weight pricing.
Cache-write pricing is unusually high relative to input cost — workloads that rely heavily on prompt caching should benchmark actual savings.
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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.