Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Qwen3.7 Max
Updated October 21, 2026. 33 benchmarks have a result for both. Coding is ranked on the Vibe Coding Index; every other board is shown as published.
Decision reading
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 for coding: it scores 75.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 45.1 for Qwen3.7 Max.
Pick Qwen3.7 Max when what matters is GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) or Mystery game puzzles, where it leads.
- Shared results
- 33
- Claude Haiku 5.5 only
- 29
- Qwen3.7 Max only
- 26
- Like-for-like categories
- 8 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
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 75.9 against 45.1.
2 and 1 benchmarks behind the scores
Intelligence
AA Intelligence Index
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 leads, 43.4 against 29.5.
Same board, both measured
Agentic work
AA Agentic Index
No call
Only Qwen3.7 Max has a AA Agentic Index result, 22.5.
Directional only
Reasoning
GPQA Diamond
No call
Only Qwen3.7 Max has a GPQA Diamond result, 90.2%.
Directional only
Knowledge
MMLU Pro
No call
Only Qwen3.7 Max has a MMLU Pro result, 89.3%.
Directional only
Web design
Design Arena: websites
Qwen3.7 Max
Qwen3.7 Max leads, 1274 against 1263.
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
No call
Both take 1M tokens.
Listed by OpenRouter
Everyday cost
1K input + 500 output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5
Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.0003, Qwen3.7 Max $0.0037 per turn.
List prices
Cost per solved task
One SWE-bench Verified task, solved
No call
Only Qwen3.7 Max has the number, $4.69.
Directional only
At a glance
- Coding index
- Claude Haiku 5.5 75.9 from 2 benchmarks, Qwen3.7 Max 45.1 from 1 benchmark.
- Widest category
- Knowledge, 22.4 points apart on average over 2 shared benchmarks.
- Widest single gap
- ProofBench: Claude Haiku 5.5 89.0% against Qwen3.7 Max 26.0%, 63.0 points apart on a 0 to 100 scale.
- Output price
- Claude Haiku 5.5 $0.50 against Qwen3.7 Max $4.425 per million output tokens, 8.8x apart.
- Context window
- Both take 1M tokens.
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 | Qwen3.7 Max | Ties |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coding | 6 | 0 | ||
| Intelligence | 2 | 0 | ||
| Agentic work | 4 | 0 | ||
| Reasoning | 3 | 2 | ||
| Math | 4 | 0 | ||
| Knowledge | 1 | 1 | ||
| Web design | 5 | 1 | ||
| General | 4 | 0 | ||
| All shared boards | 29 | 4 |
CodingLike-for-likeFour of these boards feed the Vibe Coding Index60
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| LiveBench coding | 91.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| LMArena WebDev | 1586 | 1515 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| AA Coding Index | Not measured | 66.0 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 87.1% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| SWE-bench Verified (Vals AI) | Not measured | 68.8% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Terminal-Bench 4 (Vals AI) | 36.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vibe Code Bench (Vals AI) | 90.4% | 47.7% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Code migration (Vals AI) | 44.6% | 13.1% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| 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 |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals AI) | Not measured | 61.0% | Only Qwen3.7 Max 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% | 49.5% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Terminal-Bench Hard (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 50.8% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| FrontierCode | 46.4% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| FrontierSWE | 43.8% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| ALE-Bench | Not measured | 1189.4 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| LMArena WebDev: React | 1605 | 1514 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| LMArena WebDev: HTML | 1569 | 1512 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 17 boards here | |||
IntelligenceLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index20
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Intelligence Index | 43.4 | 29.5 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Epoch Capabilities Index | 159.3 | 154.0 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
Agentic workLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| AA Agentic Index | Not measured | 22.5 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: agents building web apps | Not measured | 1208 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: agents building full-stack apps | Not measured | 1191 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: agents building mobile apps | Not measured | 1153 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Android apps | Not measured | 1165 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: agents building Godot games | Not measured | 1187 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: agents building games | Not measured | 1161 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: HTML slides | Not measured | 1158 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: PowerPoint slides | Not measured | 1196 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| 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% | 47.8% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Tax Agent Bench (Vals AI) | 31.9% | 15.8% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Legal Research Bench (Vals AI) | 43.3% | 25.5% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Harvey's Legal Agent Benchmark (Vals AI) | 4.2% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Excel Modeling Benchmark (Vals AI) | 59.0% | 57.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| 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 | 94.7% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| APEX-Agents | 56.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Vending-Bench 2 | $3,602 | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 15 boards here | |||
ReasoningLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index32
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| GPQA Diamond | Not measured | 90.2% | Only Qwen3.7 Max 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 |
| GPQA Diamond (Artificial Analysis run) | Not measured | 92.3% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Humanity's Last Exam (Artificial Analysis run) | 44.4% | 40.5% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) | 89.6% | 90.9% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| 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 | 70.4% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Chess puzzles | 55.0% | 26.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Mystery game puzzles | 30.0% | 32.0% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| EBR-bench | 43.8% | 9.5% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
MathLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| OTIS Mock AIME | 98.9% | 95.6% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| FrontierMath, tiers 1 to 3 | 75.1% | 64.6% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| FrontierMath, tier 4 | 46.3% | 34.1% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| ProofBench | 89.0% | 26.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Neither model has a result on the other 9 boards here | |||
KnowledgeLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index11
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU Pro | Not measured | 89.3% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| LegalBench (Vals AI) | Not measured | 84.9% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| CorpFin (Vals AI) | Not measured | 63.7% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| TaxEval (Vals AI) | Not measured | 75.3% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| MedCode (Vals AI) | 51.5% | 38.8% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| SimpleQA Verified | 23.8% | 55.8% | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Neither model has a result on the other 11 boards here | |||
Web designLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index51
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | Leader |
|---|---|---|---|
| Design Arena: websites | 1263 | 1274 | Qwen3.7 Max |
| Design Arena: UI components | 1295 | 1269 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: game dev | 1315 | 1265 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: data viz | 1292 | 1275 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: 3D | 1343 | 1266 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: all code categories | 1279 | 1275 | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Design Arena: SVG | Not measured | 1216 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Design Arena: ASCII art | Not measured | 1211 | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| LiveBench design | 83.1% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
GeneralLike-for-likePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index40
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | 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% | 79.4% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| IFBench | Not measured | 80.5% | Only Qwen3.7 Max measured |
| Long context reasoning (AA-LCR) | 82.7% | 79.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| DTBench | 95.0% | 92.3% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| LMCA | 51.1% | 44.0% | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
| Furniture assembly | 47.5% | Not measured | Only Claude Haiku 5.5 measured |
| Neither model has a result on the other 36 boards here | |||
Image generationNot comparablePublic boards, shown as published, kept out of the index0 boards, none shared
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Qwen3.7 Max | 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 costs less
Repository review
50K input + 3K output tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs less
Agent loop
200K input + 10K output tokens
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 | Qwen3.7 Max |
|---|---|---|
| Maker | Anthropic | Qwen |
| Weights | No public weights listed | No public weights listed |
| Released | October 7, 2026 | May 21, 2026 |
| Context window | 1M | 1M |
| Input $/Mtok | $0.10 | $1.475 |
| Output $/Mtok | $0.50 | $4.425 |
| Coding index | 75.9 | 45.1 |
| Independent measurements behind it | 2 | 1 |
| Cost per solved task | Not computable | $4.69 |
| Source | OpenRouter listing | OpenRouter listing |
Questions
Is Claude Haiku 5.5 better than Qwen3.7 Max for coding?
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 for coding: it scores 75.9 on the Vibe Coding Index against 45.1 for Qwen3.7 Max. Pick Qwen3.7 Max when what matters is GPQA Diamond (Epoch AI run) or Mystery game puzzles, where it leads.
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 5.5 or Qwen3.7 Max?
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; Qwen3.7 Max costs $1.475 and $4.425. Cost per solved task is known for Qwen3.7 Max only.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 5.5 or Qwen3.7 Max?
Neither: both take 1M tokens.
How many benchmarks is the Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Qwen3.7 Max comparison based on?
33 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 Qwen3.7 Max's on 1. Where only one model has a result, the page says so instead of naming a winner.