Trinity Large Thinking vs Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5 leads Trinity Large Thinking on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 16.9 to 10.8, and Trinity Large Thinking costs 6.3x less per output token ($0.80 vs $5.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 44 benchmarks have a result for both.
Trinity Large Thinking or Claude Haiku 4.5: which to pick
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a coding score, 35.6 on the Vibe Coding Index; Trinity Large Thinking has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.
Pick Trinity Large Thinking for output tokens 6.3x cheaper ($0.80 vs $5.00 per million) and a larger context window (262K against 200K tokens).
- Shared results
- 44
- Trinity Large Thinking only
- 8
- Claude Haiku 4.5 only
- 51
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 of 9
Only benchmarks that tested both models count toward a pick; a result only one model has is shown but not compared.
Which one for your work
Each card is decided by one number both models carry. Where only one has it, the card says so and makes no call.
Coding
Vibe Coding Index, six public coding benchmarks
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a coding score, so no call is made.
One side not measured
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5 leads, 16.9 against 10.8.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5 leads, 8.0 against 1.0.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a GPQA Diamond result, 72.2%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a AIME result, 82.7%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a MMLU Pro result, 78.7%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Trinity Large Thinking
Trinity Large Thinking leads, 1137 against 1122.
Same board, both measured
Long documents
Listed context window
Trinity Large Thinking
Trinity Large Thinking takes 262K tokens against 200K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Trinity Large Thinking
Trinity Large Thinking $0.0006, Claude Haiku 4.5 $0.0035 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has the number, $0.56.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Trinity Large Thinking not benchmarked, Claude Haiku 4.5 35.6 from 4 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 14.9 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- LMArena Text: longer queries: Trinity Large Thinking 1318 against Claude Haiku 4.5 1427, 18.2 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Trinity Large Thinking $0.80 against Claude Haiku 4.5 $5.00 per million output tokens, 6.3x apart.
- Context window
- Trinity Large Thinking takes 262K tokens, Claude Haiku 4.5 200K.
Benchmark by benchmark
First the score: boards each model leads, per category, where both have a result. Then every board, a category to a fold; bars are each result on a 0 to 100 scale, so compare the two in a row, not one row with another.
| Category | Trinity Large Thinking | Bars | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 6 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 1 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 3 | ||
| Math | 0 | 2 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 5 | ||
| Web design | 3 | 5 | ||
| General | 0 | 17 | ||
| All shared boards | 4 | 40 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index06
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 66.6% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | Not measured | 64.7% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench coding | Not measured | 48.1% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1238 | 1330 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| AA Coding Index | 25.8 | 43.9 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 41.2% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.6% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 11.4% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | Not measured | 7.5% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 0.0% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 43.8% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SciCode | 40.6% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | 22.7% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 35.5% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 45.4% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1357 | 1454 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1362 | 1439 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1231 | 1326 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1240 | 1318 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 20 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 10.8 | 16.9 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | Not measured | 142.2 | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 1.0 | 8.0 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LiveBench research | Not measured | 42.2% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench browser | Not measured | 40.0% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | Not measured | 11.1% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | Not measured | 31.0% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 5.9% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 10.6% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | Not measured | 22.7% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | 90.1% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| BALROG | Not measured | 31.2% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | Not measured | 45.5% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | Not measured | $459 | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | Not measured | 68.7% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 28 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index03
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 72.2% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | Not measured | 61.7% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 46.1% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | 75.2% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 15.8% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | Not measured | 71.2% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI | Not measured | 47.7% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Not measured | 4.0% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Chess puzzles | Not measured | 8.0% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1342 | 1421 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1359 | 1443 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1356 | 1435 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 82.7% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 92.2% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | Not measured | 66.7% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 96.4% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1365 | 1398 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1350 | 1430 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index15
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 78.7% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 81.2% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 57.9% | 56.5% | Trinity Large Thinking |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 54.7% | 60.6% | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 67.5% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 62.2% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 79.6% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | Not measured | 32.7% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | Not measured | 13.2% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1355 | 1406 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1349 | 1394 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1345 | 1400 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1329 | 1400 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 5 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index35
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1137 | 1122 | Trinity Large Thinking |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1042 | 1097 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1078 | 1097 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1098 | 1124 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1081 | 1071 | Trinity Large Thinking |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1117 | 1114 | Trinity Large Thinking |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1016 | 1025 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1041 | 1140 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LiveBench design | Not measured | 59.9% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index017
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | Not measured | 59.3% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 54.3% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | Not measured | 31.8% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | Not measured | 85.2% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | Not measured | 42.9% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| IFBench | 56.3% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 38.0% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| DTBench | Not measured | 73.6% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMCA | Not measured | 30.9% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Surface Evolver Bench | 15.6% | Not measured | Only Trinity Large Thinking measured |
| ExploitBench | Not measured | 13.7% | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1340 | 1397 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1326 | 1414 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1308 | 1371 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: English | 1356 | 1414 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1325 | 1377 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1371 | 1418 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: German | 1356 | 1374 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1312 | 1338 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1306 | 1346 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: French | 1366 | 1411 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1327 | 1421 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1338 | 1381 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1312 | 1343 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1320 | 1409 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1318 | 1427 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1317 | 1386 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1296 | 1369 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| LMArena Document | Not measured | 1420 | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Trinity Large Thinking | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Neither model has a result on 5 boards here | |||
What each workload costs
Three fixed token mixes at each model's listed price, so per-token rates become a bill.
Chat turn
1K input + 500 output tokens
Trinity Large Thinking costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Trinity Large Thinking costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Trinity Large Thinking costs less
Listed OpenRouter rates, without cache or batch discounts. A workload that does not fit a model's context window would need splitting.
Specification differences
The leading value in a row is marked; a row with a missing value names no leader. Our two rows are marked in red.
| Specification | Arcee AI Trinity Large Thinking | Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Arcee AI | Anthropic |
| Weights | Open weights | No public weights listed |
| Released | April 1, 2026 | October 15, 2025 |
| Context window | 262K | 200K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.25 | $1.00 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.80 | $5.00 |
| Coding index | Not benchmarked | 35.6 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 1 | 4 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.56 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Trinity Large Thinking better than Claude Haiku 4.5 for coding?
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a coding score, 35.6 on the Vibe Coding Index; Trinity Large Thinking has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Trinity Large Thinking for output tokens 6.3x cheaper ($0.80 vs $5.00 per million) and a larger context window (262K against 200K tokens).
Which is cheaper, Trinity Large Thinking or Claude Haiku 4.5?
Trinity Large Thinking costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $0.80 per million output tokens; Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1.00 and $5.00. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Haiku 4.5 only.
Which has the bigger context window, Trinity Large Thinking or Claude Haiku 4.5?
Trinity Large Thinking, with 262K tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks is the Trinity Large Thinking vs Claude Haiku 4.5 comparison based on?
44 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Trinity Large Thinking's coding index rests on 1 independent benchmark and Claude Haiku 4.5's on 4. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.