Claude Haiku 5.5 vs o4 Mini
Updated October 21, 2026. 24 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 24 shared
Decision reading
Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 75.9 and o4 Mini 68.6 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 8.8x less, or when the context window is larger, 1M against 200K tokens.
Model AClaude Haiku 5.5Anthropic75.9/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved taskModel Bo4 MiniOpenAI68.6/1002 independent benchmarksNo cost per solved task
- Shared results
- 24
- Claude Haiku 5.5 only
- 38
- o4 Mini only
- 70
- Like-for-like categories
- 6 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 68.6, from different benchmarks with none in common.
Directional only
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads, 43.4 against 16.7.
Same board, both measured
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only o4 Mini has a GPQA Diamond result, 74.5%.
Directional only
Math
AIME
No call
Only o4 Mini has a AIME result, 83.7%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only o4 Mini has a MMLU Pro result, 80.6%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads, 1263 against 985.
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 200K.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.0003, o4 Mini $0.0033 per turn.
List prices
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Haiku 5.5 75.9 from 2 benchmarks, o4 Mini 68.6 from 2 benchmarks.
- Widest category
- Web design, 41.5 points apart on average over 6 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- Design Arena: 3D: Claude Haiku 5.5 1343 against o4 Mini 854, 61.1 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.50 against o4 Mini $4.40 per million output tokens, 8.8x apart.
- Context window
- Claude Haiku 5.5 takes 1M tokens, o4 Mini 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 | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Bars | o4 Mini | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 6 | 0 | ||
| Math | 3 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 2 | 0 | ||
| Web design | 6 | 0 | ||
| General | 5 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 24 | 0 |
CodingDirectional onlyFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index25 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | o4 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aider polyglot | Not measured | 72.0% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Verified | Not measured | 64.6% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| SWE-bench Multimodal | Not measured | 33.9% | Only o4 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 | 82.2% | Only o4 Mini 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 |
| LiveCodeBench (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 85.9% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| SciCode | 55.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 15.2% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| FrontierCode | 46.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| GSO-Bench | Not measured | 3.6% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| WeirdML | Not measured | 52.6% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: coding | Not measured | 1368 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: software and IT | Not measured | 1367 | Only o4 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 |
| 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 | o4 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 43.4 | 16.7 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.3 | 145.5 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
Agentic workDirectional onlyPublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index16 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | o4 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 | 55.6% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| APEX-Agents | 56.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| METR time horizons | Not measured | 63.9% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $3,602 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 23 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index60
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | o4 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 74.5% | Only o4 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 | 79.7% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 78.4% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 44.4% | 16.5% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 89.6% | 79.6% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| ARC-AGI | 89.0% | 58.7% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| ARC-AGI-2 | 61.3% | 6.1% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| SimpleBench | Not measured | 38.7% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Chess puzzles | 55.0% | 22.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Mystery game puzzles | 30.0% | 5.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| EBR-bench | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| VPCT | Not measured | 57.5% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts | Not measured | 1351 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: expert | Not measured | 1343 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: hard prompts in English | Not measured | 1366 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: diagrams | Not measured | 1197 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: homework | Not measured | 1234 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index30
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | o4 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIME | Not measured | 83.7% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| MATH 500 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 94.2% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| MGSM (Vals AI) | Not measured | 93.4% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| AA Math Index | Not measured | 90.7 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| AIME 2025 (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 90.7% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.9% | 81.7% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 75.1% | 36.1% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 46.3% | 4.9% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| ProofBench | 89.0% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| MATH level 5 | Not measured | 97.8% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: math | Not measured | 1389 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: mathematical work | Not measured | 1379 | Only o4 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 | o4 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 80.6% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 79.2% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 59.0% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 74.8% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| MortgageTax (Vals AI) | Not measured | 64.8% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| MedQA (Vals AI) | Not measured | 96.0% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 51.5% | 33.8% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| MMLU Pro (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 83.2% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| SimpleQA Verified | 23.8% | 19.6% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| GeoBench | Not measured | 64.0% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: science | Not measured | 1354 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: medicine and healthcare | Not measured | 1361 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: legal and government | Not measured | 1350 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: business and finance | Not measured | 1325 | Only o4 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 | o4 Mini | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1263 | 985 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1295 | 983 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1315 | 1004 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1292 | 990 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1343 | 854 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1279 | 977 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| LiveBench design | 83.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 2 boards here | |||
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index50
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | o4 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% | 41.1% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| MedScribe (Vals AI) | 89.5% | 69.1% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| IFBench | Not measured | 68.7% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.7% | 61.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| DTBench | 95.0% | 77.6% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| LMCA | 51.1% | 26.5% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Fiction.LiveBench | Not measured | 77.8% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Creative writing (Lech Mazur) | Not measured | 75.0% | Only o4 Mini measured |
| Furniture assembly | 47.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena Text | Not measured | 1353 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: instruction following | Not measured | 1320 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: creative writing | Not measured | 1294 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision | Not measured | 1194 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: English | Not measured | 1367 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: non-English | Not measured | 1337 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Chinese | Not measured | 1354 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: German | Not measured | 1336 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Japanese | Not measured | 1308 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Korean | Not measured | 1312 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: French | Not measured | 1364 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Spanish | Not measured | 1346 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Russian | Not measured | 1334 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: Polish | Not measured | 1358 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: multi-turn | Not measured | 1350 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: longer queries | Not measured | 1315 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: writing and language | Not measured | 1316 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Text: entertainment and media | Not measured | 1308 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: English | Not measured | 1200 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: Chinese | Not measured | 1218 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: reading text | Not measured | 1197 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: humor | Not measured | 1199 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: captioning | Not measured | 1204 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: recognizing things | Not measured | 1218 | Only o4 Mini measured |
| LMArena Vision: creative writing | Not measured | 1166 | Only o4 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 | o4 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
o4 Mini$0.0033Fits 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
o4 Mini$0.068Fits 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
o4 Mini$0.264Exceeds 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 o4 Mini |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | October 7, 2026 | April 16, 2025 |
| Context window | 1M | 200K |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.10 | $1.10 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $4.40 |
| Coding index | 75.9 | 68.6 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 2 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | Not computable |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Haiku 5.5 better than o4 Mini for coding?
Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 75.9 and o4 Mini 68.6 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 8.8x less, or when the context window is larger, 1M against 200K tokens.
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 5.5 or o4 Mini?
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; o4 Mini costs $1.10 and $4.40. Cost per solved task is known for neither of them.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 5.5 or o4 Mini?
Claude Haiku 5.5, with 1M tokens against 200K.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Haiku 5.5 vs o4 Mini comparison based on?
24 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 o4 Mini's on 2. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.