Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B leads Claude Haiku 4.5 on coding, 36.8 to 35.6 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Qwen3.6 27B costs 1.9x less per output token ($2.70 vs $5.00 per million). Updated October 23, 2026; 16 benchmarks have a result for both.
Claude Haiku 4.5 or Qwen3.6 27B: which to pick
Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3.6 27B are level for coding, 35.6 against 36.8 on the Vibe Coding Index, so price and context decide.
Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 for a lower cost per solved task ($0.56 against $1.30) and work measured by CaseLaw (Vals AI) or EQ-Bench 4, where it leads. Pick Qwen3.6 27B for output tokens 1.9x cheaper ($2.70 vs $5.00 per million) and a larger context window (262K against 200K tokens).
- Shared results
- 16
- Claude Haiku 4.5 only
- 82
- Qwen3.6 27B only
- 9
- Like-for-like categories
- 7 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
Level: 35.6 against 36.8, inside 2 points.
4 and 2 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B leads, 21.4 against 16.9.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B leads, 18.5 against 8.0.
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
No call
Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1122.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Qwen3.6 27B
Qwen3.6 27B takes 262K tokens against 200K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Qwen3.6 27B
Claude Haiku 4.5 $0.0035, Qwen3.6 27B $0.0018 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5 $0.56, Qwen3.6 27B $1.30.
Published attempt cost and pass rate
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Haiku 4.5 35.6 from 4 benchmarks, Qwen3.6 27B 36.8 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Math, 24.4 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
- Widest single gap
- OTIS Mock AIME: Claude Haiku 4.5 66.7% against Qwen3.6 27B 91.1%, 24.4 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Haiku 4.5 $5.00 against Qwen3.6 27B $2.70 per million output tokens, 1.9x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Haiku 4.5 takes 200K tokens, Qwen3.6 27B 262K.
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 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Bars | Qwen3.6 27B | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 0 | 3 | ||
| Intelligence | 0 | 2 | ||
| Agentic work | 0 | 1 | ||
| Reasoning | 0 | 1 | ||
| Math | 0 | 1 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 3 | ||
| General | 1 | 3 | ||
| All shared boards | 2 | 14 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index03
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 66.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | 64.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench coding | 48.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1331 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| AA Coding Index | 43.9 | 53.7 | Qwen3.6 27B |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | 41.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | 66.6% | 70.0% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 11.4% | 11.9% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 7.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 0.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SciCode | Not measured | 42.8% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 34.8% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| Terminal-Bench | 35.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| WeirdML | 45.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | 1454 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | 1439 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1326 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1318 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index02
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 16.9 | 21.4 | Qwen3.6 27B |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 142.2 | 146.2 | Qwen3.6 27B |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | 8.0 | 18.5 | Qwen3.6 27B |
| LiveBench research | 42.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 40.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 11.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 31.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 5.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 10.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 22.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 94.2% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| BALROG | 31.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| DeepResearch Bench | 45.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $459 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | 68.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MCP Atlas | 40.2% | Not measured | 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 index01
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | 72.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench reasoning | 61.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | 46.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 84.2% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 23.1% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 71.2% | 85.9% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| ARC-AGI | 47.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 4.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Chess puzzles | 8.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Mystery game puzzles | Not measured | 7.0% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | 1420 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | 1443 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | 1435 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index01
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | 82.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | 92.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 66.7% | 91.1% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | Not measured | 35.1% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| MATH level 5 | 96.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: math | 1398 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | 1430 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | 78.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | 81.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | 56.5% | 53.2% | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | 60.6% | 62.3% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | 67.5% | 71.3% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | 62.2% | 68.3% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | 79.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 32.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 13.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: science | 1406 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | 1394 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | 1400 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | 1400 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1122 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1097 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1096 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1124 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1073 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1114 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: SVG | 1025 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | 1140 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LiveBench design | 59.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index13
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench data analysis | 59.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 54.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 31.8% | 45.6% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 85.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| Vals Multimodal Index | 42.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| IFBench | Not measured | 67.6% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | Not measured | 77.3% | Only Qwen3.6 27B measured |
| DTBench | 73.6% | 78.1% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| LMCA | 30.9% | 34.5% | Qwen3.6 27B |
| ExploitBench | 13.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | 1397 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | 1414 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | 1371 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: English | 1414 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | 1377 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | 1418 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: German | 1374 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | 1338 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | 1346 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: French | 1410 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | 1422 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | 1381 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | 1343 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | 1409 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | 1427 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | 1386 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | 1369 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| LMArena Document | 1420 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| MultiChallenge | 50.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 measured |
| EQ-Bench 4 | 1064 | 1026 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 18 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B | 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
Qwen3.6 27B costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Qwen3.6 27B costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Qwen3.6 27B 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 | Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 | Qwen3.6 27B |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | Open weights |
| Released | October 15, 2025 | April 27, 2026 |
| Context window | 200K | 262K |
| Input $/Mtok | $1.00 | $0.45 |
| Output $/Mtok | $5.00 | $2.70 |
| Coding index | 35.6 | 36.8 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 4 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | $0.56 | $1.30 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Qwen3.6 27B for coding?
Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3.6 27B are level for coding, 35.6 against 36.8 on the Vibe Coding Index, so price and context decide. Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 for a lower cost per solved task ($0.56 against $1.30) and work measured by CaseLaw (Vals AI) or EQ-Bench 4, where it leads. Pick Qwen3.6 27B for output tokens 1.9x cheaper ($2.70 vs $5.00 per million) and a larger context window (262K against 200K tokens).
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Qwen3.6 27B?
Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1.00 per million input tokens and $5.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3.6 27B costs $0.45 and $2.70. Per solved SWE-bench Verified task, Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $0.56 and Qwen3.6 27B $1.30.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Qwen3.6 27B?
Qwen3.6 27B, with 262K tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3.6 27B comparison based on?
16 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 23, 2026. Claude Haiku 4.5's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and Qwen3.6 27B's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.