Claude Haiku 5.5 vs GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)
Updated October 21, 2026. 6 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
vs boards won of 6 shared
Decision reading
Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 75.9 and GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) 3.6 on the Vibe Coding Index, but no coding benchmark measured both, so the gap is directional, not a ranking.
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 when output tokens cost 1.2x less, or when the context window is larger, 1M against 128K tokens.
Model AClaude Haiku 5.5Anthropic75.9/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BGPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)OpenAI3.6/1001 independent benchmarkNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 6
- Claude Haiku 5.5 only
- 56
- GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) only
- 40
- Like-for-like categories
- 3 of 9
Shared results can support a head-to-head reading. Results only one model has describe coverage, not superiority.
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, four public coding benchmarks
No call
75.9 against 3.6, from different benchmarks with none in common.
Directional only
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
No call
Only Claude Haiku 5.5 has a AA Intelligence Index result, 43.4.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
No call
Only Claude Haiku 5.5 has a Design Arena: websites result, 1263.
Directional only
General
Vals Index
No call
Only Claude Haiku 5.5 has a Vals Index result, 58.7%.
Directional only
Long documents
Listed context window
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 takes 1M tokens against 128K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.0003, GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) $0.0004 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Haiku 5.5 75.9 from 2 benchmarks, GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) 3.6 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Math, 83.2 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- OTIS Mock AIME: Claude Haiku 5.5 98.9% against GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) 6.9%, 91.9 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.50 against GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) $0.60 per million output tokens, 1.2x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Haiku 5.5 takes 1M tokens, GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) 128K.
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 5.5 | Bars | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reasoning | 3 | 0 | ||
| Math | 2 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 6 | 0 |
CodingDirectional onlyFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index19 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 3.6% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LiveBench coding | 91.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1586 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 36.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 90.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 44.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| ProgramBench (Vals AI) | 2.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| IOI (Vals AI) | 47.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal (Vals AI) | 44.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench 1-100 (Vals AI) | 20.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| CyberBench (Vals AI) | 75.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SciCode | 55.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| FrontierCode | 46.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 11.8% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1290 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1291 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1605 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1569 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 19 boards here | |||
IntelligenceDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index2 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 43.4 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.3 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index15 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench research | 81.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench browser | 80.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench long agentic | 57.6% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SREBench (Vals AI) | 5.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Finance Agent (Vals AI) | 54.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 31.9% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 43.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 4.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 59.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| BioMysteryBench (Vals AI) | 70.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench-Science (Vals AI) | 10.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vals Science Index | 38.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| APEX-Agents | 56.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| BALROG | Not measured | 17.4% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $3,602 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 24 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench reasoning | 82.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| MysteryMechanism (Vals AI) | 35.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 44.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 89.6% | 37.7% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| ARC-AGI | 89.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 10.7% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Chess puzzles | 55.0% | 3.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Mystery game puzzles | 30.0% | 12.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| EBR-bench | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| VPCT | Not measured | 34.0% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1267 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1234 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1278 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 7 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.9% | 6.9% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 75.1% | 0.7% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 46.3% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| ProofBench | 89.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 52.6% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1267 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1271 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 6 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 51.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 23.8% | 8.3% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| MMLU | Not measured | 76.7% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| GeoBench | Not measured | 64.0% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1286 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1282 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1305 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1265 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
Web designDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index7 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1263 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1295 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1315 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1292 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1343 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1279 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench design | 83.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Vals Index | 58.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LiveBench data analysis | 53.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Public Benefits Bench (Vals AI) | 63.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| SAGE (Vals AI) | 45.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 89.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.7% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| DTBench | 95.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMCA | 51.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 67.2% | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Furniture assembly | 47.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1286 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1258 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1268 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1066 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1301 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1266 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1265 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1272 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1216 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1195 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1297 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1276 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1275 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1244 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1285 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1289 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1282 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1253 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1072 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1033 | Only GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 16 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) | 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
Claude Haiku 5.5$0.0003Fits in one request
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)$0.0004Fits in one request
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5$0.0065Fits in one request
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)$0.0093Fits in one request
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5$0.025Fits in one request
GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)$0.036Exceeds the context window
Claude Haiku 5.5 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 5.5 | OpenAI GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | October 7, 2026 | July 18, 2024 |
| Context window | 1M | 128K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.10 | $0.15 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $0.60 |
| Coding index | 75.9 | 3.6 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Haiku 5.5 better than GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) for coding?
Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 75.9 and GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) 3.6 on the Vibe Coding Index, but no coding benchmark measured both, so the gap is directional, not a ranking. Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 when output tokens cost 1.2x less, or when the context window is larger, 1M against 128K tokens.
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 5.5 or GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)?
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) costs $0.15 and $0.60. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 5.5 or GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)?
Claude Haiku 5.5, with 1M tokens against 128K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Haiku 5.5 vs GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18) comparison based on?
6 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 21, 2026. Claude Haiku 5.5's coding index rests on 2 independent benchmarks and GPT-4o-mini (2024-07-18)'s on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.