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Qwen 3 Max vs Claude Haiku 4.5

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

Verdict

Claude Haiku 4.5 leads on LMSYS ELO (1305 vs 1295). Claude Haiku 4.5 is ~1.8× cheaper on a 3:1 input:output blend. Qwen 3 Max is open-weights, the other is proprietary.

Qwen

Qwen 3 Max

Alibaba’s flagship. Strongest non-English coverage of any open model; dominant in Asian markets.

MultilingualOpen weightsCompetitive coding

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

Pricing

Input / 1M$1.60$0.80

Output / 1M$6.40$4.00

Context128K200K

Max output16K16K

LicenseOpen weightsProprietary

Released2025-11-202025-10-01

Benchmarks

LMSYS ELO1295.01305.0

MMLU Pro84.081.4

HumanEval87.287.0

SWE-Bench—49.2

MATH85.176.8

MMMU71.8—

IFEval85.587.3

Per-task cost

Summarize a 1-hour meeting transcript$0.027$0.014

Review a 500-line pull request$0.026$0.014

Answer a customer support ticket$0.0099$0.0056

Extract structured data from a resume$0.014$0.0080

Debug a stack trace with context$0.022$0.013

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

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