Claude Haiku 5.5 vs GPT-5 Mini
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads GPT-5 Mini on coding, 70.7 to 34.2 on the Vibe Coding Index, and Claude Haiku 5.5 costs 4.0x less per output token ($0.50 vs $2.00 per million). Updated October 22, 2026; 28 benchmarks have a result for both.
vs boards won of 28 shared
Claude Haiku 5.5 or GPT-5 Mini: which to pick
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 for coding: it scores 70.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 34.2 for GPT-5 Mini.
GPT-5 Mini is neither cheaper nor larger in context, and leads no benchmark both models were measured on.
Model AClaude Haiku 5.5Anthropic70.7/1005 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel BGPT-5 MiniOpenAI34.2/1002 independent benchmarks$0.08 per solved task
- Shared results
- 28
- Claude Haiku 5.5 only
- 35
- GPT-5 Mini only
- 73
- 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
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 70.7 against 34.2.
5 and 2 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads, 43.4 against 20.6.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has a GPQA Diamond result, 80.3%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has a AIME result, 91.5%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has a MMLU Pro result, 82.2%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads, 1262 against 1125.
Same board, both measured
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 400K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.0003, GPT-5 Mini $0.0013 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only GPT-5 Mini has the number, $0.08.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Haiku 5.5 70.7 from 5 benchmarks, GPT-5 Mini 34.2 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Coding, 46.1 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- ProofBench: Claude Haiku 5.5 89.0% against GPT-5 Mini 9.0%, 80.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.50 against GPT-5 Mini $2.00 per million output tokens, 4.0x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Haiku 5.5 takes 1M tokens, GPT-5 Mini 400K.
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-5 Mini | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 2 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 1 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 6 | 0 | ||
| Math | 4 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 2 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 6 | 0 | ||
| General | 5 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 28 | 0 |
CodingLike-for-likeSix of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index20
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-5 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 59.8% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Multilingual | Not measured | 39.7% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LiveBench coding | 91.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1586 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 86.6% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 60.8% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 36.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 90.4% | 14.2% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| 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 |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 83.8% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| SciCode | 55.0% | 39.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 33.3% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Terminal-Bench | Not measured | 34.8% | Only GPT-5 Mini 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 | 52.7% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1406 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1394 | Only GPT-5 Mini 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 |
| SciCode | 9.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 13 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-5 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 43.4 | 20.6 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.3 | 145.3 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index10
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-5 Mini | 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 |
| τ²-Bench Telecom | Not measured | 71.1% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| APEX-Agents | 56.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $3,602 | -$31 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Berkeley Function Calling Leaderboard (BFCL) | Not measured | 55.5% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 25 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-5 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 80.3% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| 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 |
| MMMU Pro (Vals AI) | Not measured | 78.9% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 82.8% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 44.4% | 21.5% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 89.6% | 75.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| ARC-AGI | 89.0% | 54.3% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.3% | 4.4% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Chess puzzles | 55.0% | 24.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Mystery game puzzles | 30.0% | 10.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| EBR-bench | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| VPCT | Not measured | 40.2% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1380 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1379 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1383 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1202 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1210 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Kagi LLM Benchmark | Not measured | 70.3% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-5 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 91.5% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 94.8% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 92.6% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 90.7 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 90.7% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.9% | 86.7% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 75.1% | 46.7% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 46.3% | 12.2% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| ProofBench | 89.0% | 9.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 97.8% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1378 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1380 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 1 board here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-5 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 82.2% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 81.8% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| CaseLaw (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.5% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 60.2% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 75.2% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 66.9% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 96.1% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 51.5% | 43.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 83.7% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 23.8% | 21.6% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1371 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1380 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1375 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1358 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| FACTS Benchmark Suite | Not measured | 38.6% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 3 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-5 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1262 | 1125 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1291 | 1103 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1313 | 1129 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1294 | 1131 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1342 | 1036 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1278 | 1114 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1091 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1125 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LiveBench design | 83.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-5 Mini | 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% | 43.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 89.5% | 80.6% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| IFBench | Not measured | 75.4% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.7% | 72.3% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| DTBench | 95.0% | 80.5% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| LMCA | 51.1% | 34.2% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 69.4% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 83.1% | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Furniture assembly | 47.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1373 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1357 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1325 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1202 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1379 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1363 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1386 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1366 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1341 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1308 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1386 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1354 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1362 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1378 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1363 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1355 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1344 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1340 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1216 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1214 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1199 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1205 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | Not measured | 1217 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1226 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1181 | Only GPT-5 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | GPT-5 Mini | 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-5 Mini$0.0013Fits 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-5 Mini$0.018Fits 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-5 Mini$0.070Fits in one request
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-5 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | October 7, 2026 | August 7, 2025 |
| Context window | 1M | 400K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.10 | $0.25 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $2.00 |
| Coding index | 70.7 | 34.2 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 5 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $0.08 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Haiku 5.5 better than GPT-5 Mini for coding?
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 for coding: it scores 70.7 on the Vibe Coding Index against 34.2 for GPT-5 Mini. GPT-5 Mini is neither cheaper nor larger in context, and leads no benchmark both models were measured on.
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 5.5 or GPT-5 Mini?
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; GPT-5 Mini costs $0.25 and $2.00. Cost per solved task is known for GPT-5 Mini only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 5.5 or GPT-5 Mini?
Claude Haiku 5.5, with 1M tokens against 400K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Haiku 5.5 vs GPT-5 Mini comparison based on?
28 benchmarks have a result for both models as of October 22, 2026. Claude Haiku 5.5's coding index rests on 5 independent benchmarks and GPT-5 Mini's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.