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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-5 Turbo

Anthropic vs OpenAI. Specs, benchmarks, and real per-task cost — all in one page.

Verdict

GPT-5 Turbo leads on LMSYS ELO (1398 vs 1305). Claude Haiku 4.5 is ~6.6× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend.

Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5

Fast, cheap, and smart enough for most routing and extraction tasks. Great base model for subagents.

Sub-second latency10x cheaper than OpusStrong structured output
OpenAI
GPT-5 Turbo

OpenAI’s flagship unified model. Handles text, vision, and audio natively. The generalist benchmark champion.

Native multimodalStrong math and scienceHuge ecosystem
Pricing
Input / 1M$0.80$6.00
Output / 1M$4.00$24.00
Context200K400K
Max output16K32K
LicenseProprietaryProprietary
Released2025-10-012026-01-21
Benchmarks
LMSYS ELO1305.01398.0
MMLU Pro81.491.2
HumanEval87.093.0
SWE-Bench49.265.8
MATH76.891.5
GPQA68.1
MMMU78.8
IFEval87.388.9
Per-task cost
Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.014$0.102
Review a 500-line pull request$0.014$0.096
Answer a customer support ticket$0.0056$0.037
Extract structured data from a resume$0.0080$0.054
Debug a stack trace with context$0.013$0.084

Per-call cost using published token counts for each task. Real-world prompts vary.