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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct

Claude Haiku 4.5 leads Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, 16.9 to 9.9, and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct costs 2.6x less per output token ($1.90 vs $5.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 29 benchmarks have a result for both.

Replace Claude Haiku 4.5 Replace Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Claude Haiku 4.5Anthropic
Coding
35.6
Overall
41.0
Output $/M
$5.00
8
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwen
Coding
No data
Overall
No data
Output $/M
$1.90
21
vs boards won of 29 shared

Claude Haiku 4.5 or Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct: which to pick

Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a coding score, 35.6 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding.

Pick Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct for output tokens 2.6x cheaper ($1.90 vs $5.00 per million) and a larger context window (262K against 200K tokens).

Model AClaude Haiku 4.5Anthropic35.6/1004 independent benchmarks$0.56 per solved taskModel BQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructQwenNot benchmarkedNo coding benchmarkNo cost per solved task
Shared results
29
Claude Haiku 4.5 only
69
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct only
20
Like-for-like categories
6 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.

At a glance

Coding index
Claude Haiku 4.5 35.6 from 4 benchmarks, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct not benchmarked.
Widest category
Intelligence, 7.0 points apart on average over 1 shared benchmark.
Widest single gap
LMArena Text: Polish: Claude Haiku 4.5 1343 against Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct 1419, 12.8 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
Output price
Claude Haiku 4.5 $5.00 against Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct $1.90 per million output tokens, 2.6x apart.
Context window
Claude Haiku 4.5 takes 200K tokens, Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct 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.

Boards won, where both have a result
CategoryClaude Haiku 4.5BarsQwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructTies
Coding11
Intelligence10
Reasoning12
Math11
Knowledge04
General413
All shared boards821
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index11
Coding benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructLeader
SWE-bench Verified66.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
SWE-bench Multilingual64.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveBench coding48.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena WebDev1330Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
AA Coding Index43.9Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveCodeBench (Vals AI)41.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI)66.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI)11.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Code migration (Vals AI)7.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
ProgramBench (Vals AI)0.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI)43.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured64.6%Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured11.4%Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
Terminal-Bench35.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
WeirdML45.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: coding14541438Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: software and IT14391442Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena WebDev: React1326Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena WebDev: HTML1318Not measuredOnly 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 index10
Intelligence benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructLeader
AA Intelligence Index16.99.9Claude Haiku 4.5
Epoch Capabilities Index142.2Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index14 boards, none shared
Agentic work benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructLeader
AA Agentic Index8.0Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveBench research42.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveBench browser40.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveBench long agentic11.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Finance Agent (Vals AI)31.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI)5.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Legal Research Bench (Vals AI)10.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI)22.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
τ²-Bench TelecomNot measured54.1%Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
BALROG31.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
DeepResearch Bench45.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Vending-Bench 2$459Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL)68.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MCP Atlas40.2%Not measuredOnly 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 index12
Reasoning benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructLeader
GPQA Diamond72.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveBench reasoning61.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MMMU Pro (Vals AI)46.1%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured77.2%Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured11.9%Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run)71.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
ARC-AGI47.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
ARC-AGI-24.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Chess puzzles8.0%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: hard prompts14211428Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: expert14431442Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: hard prompts in English14351439Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Vision: diagramsNot measured1255Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
LMArena Vision: homeworkNot measured1277Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
Math benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructLeader
AIME82.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MGSM (Vals AI)92.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
AA Math IndexNot measured88.3Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured88.3%Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
OTIS Mock AIME66.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MATH level 596.4%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: math13981425Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: mathematical work14301419Claude Haiku 4.5
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index04
Knowledge benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructLeader
MMLU Pro78.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LegalBench (Vals AI)81.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
CaseLaw (Vals AI)56.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
CorpFin (Vals AI)60.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
TaxEval (Vals AI)67.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MortgageTax (Vals AI)62.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MedQA (Vals AI)79.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MedCode (Vals AI)32.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run)Not measured83.6%Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
SimpleQA Verified13.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena Text: science14061444Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare13941431Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: legal and government14001438Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: business and finance14001433Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index9 boards, none shared
Web design benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructLeader
Design Arena: websites1122Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Design Arena: UI components1097Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Design Arena: game dev1096Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Design Arena: data viz1124Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Design Arena: 3D1071Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Design Arena: all code categories1114Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Design Arena: SVG1025Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Design Arena: ASCII art1140Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LiveBench design59.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index413
General benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructLeader
LiveBench data analysis59.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI)54.3%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
SAGE (Vals AI)31.8%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MedScribe (Vals AI)85.2%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Vals Multimodal Index42.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
IFBenchNot measured56.5%Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
Long context reasoning (AA-LCR)Not measured63.7%Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
DTBench73.6%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMCA30.9%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
ExploitBench13.7%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
LMArena Text13971420Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: instruction following14141406Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: creative writing13711366Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena VisionNot measured1247Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
LMArena Text: English14141429Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: non-English13771405Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: Chinese14181463Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: German13741424Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: Japanese13381385Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: Korean13461394Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: French14111452Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: Spanish14211428Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: Russian13811408Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: Polish13431419Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: multi-turn14091428Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: longer queries14271419Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Text: writing and language13861392Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
LMArena Text: entertainment and media13691368Claude Haiku 4.5
LMArena Vision: EnglishNot measured1256Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
LMArena Vision: ChineseNot measured1283Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
LMArena Vision: reading textNot measured1253Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
LMArena Vision: humorNot measured1209Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
LMArena Vision: captioningNot measured1281Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
LMArena Vision: recognizing thingsNot measured1249Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
LMArena Vision: creative writingNot measured1220Only Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct measured
LMArena Document1420Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
MultiChallenge50.5%Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
EQ-Bench 41064Not measuredOnly Claude Haiku 4.5 measured
Neither model has a result on the other 10 boards here
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
Image generation benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
BenchmarkClaude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 VL 235B A22B InstructLeader
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

Claude Haiku 4.5$0.0035Fits in one request
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct$0.0012Fits in one request

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct costs less

Repository review

50K input + 3K output tokens

Claude Haiku 4.5$0.065Fits in one request
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct$0.016Fits in one request

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct costs less

Agent loop

200K input + 10K output tokens

Claude Haiku 4.5$0.250Exceeds the context window
Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct$0.061Fits in one request

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct 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.

Specifications of Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
SpecificationAnthropic Claude Haiku 4.5Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct
MakerAnthropicQwen
WeightsNo public weights listedOpen weights
ReleasedOctober 15, 2025September 23, 2025
Context window200K262K
Input $/Mtok$1.00$0.21
Output $/Mtok$5.00$1.90
Coding index35.6Not benchmarked
Independent measurements behind it40
Cost per solved task$0.56Not computable
SourceOpenRouter listingOpenRouter listing

Questions

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct for coding?

Only Claude Haiku 4.5 has a coding score, 35.6 on the Vibe Coding Index; Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct has none, so the two cannot be ranked on coding. Pick Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct for output tokens 2.6x cheaper ($1.90 vs $5.00 per million) and a larger context window (262K against 200K tokens).

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?

Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1.00 per million input tokens and $5.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct costs $0.21 and $1.90. Cost per solved task is known for Claude Haiku 4.5 only.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct?

Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct, with 262K tokens against 200K.

How many benchmarks is the Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct comparison based on?

29 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Haiku 4.5's coding index rests on 4 independent benchmarks and Qwen3 VL 235B A22B Instruct's on 0. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.

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