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Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 vs Claude Haiku 4.5
Which is cheaper, which is more capable, and which does better at each kind of work, from 23 results on 5 sources that measured both models.
Of the 23 results both models have, the better value on each. Results whose reported ranges overlap are too close to call.
Results as of 9 October 2026 (catalogue release 2026-10-09-dd620e778ac5). See also Alibaba vs Anthropic, every model from both labs.
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Claude Haiku 4.5? The short answer
Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 if quality matters most: it scores higher (Intelligence Index 16.9 against 12.7). Pick Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 if cost matters more: it costs 2.1 times less per token.
- Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is cheaper: $0.97 against $2.00 per million tokens, 2.1 times less.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: 16.9 against 12.7.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 is newer: released 15 Oct 2025, against 25 Jul 2025 for Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507.
- On third-party benchmarks, on the results both models have: Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 does better for reasoning and knowledge and sticking to the facts; Claude Haiku 4.5 for agents and tool use and writing.
Head to head
Every fact side by side
| Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Price per million tokens | $0.30 in · $3.00 out | $1.00 in · $5.00 out |
| Blended (3 in : 1 out) | $0.97 | $2.00 |
| Cheapest host, blended | $0.75 (Alibaba) | $2.00 (Amazon Bedrock) |
| Cached input, per million | – | $0.10 cached input |
| Intelligence Index | 12.7 | 16.9 |
| Spring Prompt overall | – | 7 |
| Output speed, tokens a second | – | 97 |
| Context window | 131,072 tokens | 200,000 tokens |
| Released | 25 Jul 2025 | 15 Oct 2025 (newer) |
| Weights | Open | Closed |
| Developer based in | China | the US |
Prices are the developer's list price where we have read it, otherwise the typical host on OpenRouter; see every model's price. Intelligence and speed from Artificial Analysis.
Which is better for what
Each model's rank among the models on sale today, for each kind of work, from our own benchmarks and licensed sources. Further right is better; the better rank is in green.
From our research
Every shared result
Each model's best result on every measure both have, grouped by benchmark, with the setting that produced it. Under each measure, every model that benchmark has measured is a grey tick, best to the right, so you can see where the two sit in the field. The headline measures of each benchmark come first; the rest are under "Show all". Green marks the better value; where a source reports ranges that overlap, neither is marked.
| Measure | Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 3 results | ||
| Overall · TextArena rating, higher is better 139 · 121 of 387 measured | 1,400 | 1,414 |
| Business, management and finance · TextArena rating, higher is better 133 · 109 of 380 measured | 1,404 | 1,420 |
| Creative writing · TextArena rating, higher is better 133 · 112 of 385 measured | 1,371 | 1,388 |
| Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 3 results | ||
| Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexindex score, higher is better 147 · 116 of 243 measured | 12.7 | 16.9thinking reasoning |
| GPQA Diamond% of questions, higher is better 114 · 163 of 231 measured | 79.0% | 67.2%thinking reasoning |
| Humanity's Last Exam% of questions, higher is better 122 · 149 of 242 measured | 15.9% | 10.4%thinking reasoning |
| SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI) reported by SimpleQA Verified (Epoch AI) · 1 result | ||
| Correct answers% of questions, higher is better 44 · 69 of 76 measured | 40.4% | 13.2% |
| UGI Leaderboard reported by UGI Leaderboard · 3 results | ||
| Writing score · UGIscore out of 100, higher is better 139 · 72 of 230 measured | 32.4 | 52.2no reasoning |
| Requested-length error · UGI% off the requested word count, lower is better 166 · 17 of 230 measured | 30.0% | 6.0%no reasoning |
| Style adherence · UGIscore from 0 to 1, higher is better 194 · 22 of 230 measured | 0.31 | 0.39thinking reasoning |
| Vending-Bench 2 reported by Vending-Bench 2 · 1 result | ||
| Money after a yearUS dollars, higher is better 55 · 49 of 58 measured | $-11.34 | $458.89 |
Show all 23 results (12 more)
| Measure | Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Arena (formerly LMArena) reported by Arena (formerly LMArena) · 3 results | ||
| Expert prompts · TextArena rating, higher is better 85 · 97 of 338 measured | 1,466 | 1,451 |
| Instruction following · TextArena rating, higher is better 142 · 101 of 387 measured | 1,385 | 1,415 |
| Writing, literature and language · TextArena rating, higher is better 139 · 106 of 386 measured | 1,377 | 1,400 |
| Artificial Analysis reported by Artificial Analysis · 9 results | ||
| Terminal-Bench 2.1% of tasks, higher is better 101 · 70 of 130 measured | 12.0% | 44.2%thinking reasoning |
| Terminal-Bench 4.0% of tasks, higher is better 66 · 66 of 112 measured | 0.0% | 0.0%thinking reasoning |
| τ-bench banking% of tasks, higher is better 87 · 82 of 121 measured | 7.8% | 9.3%thinking reasoning |
| Artificial Analysis Coding Indexindex score, higher is better 98 · 68 of 131 measured | 22.1 | 43.9thinking reasoning |
| IFBench% of instructions, higher is better 101 · 92 of 195 measured | 51.2% | 54.3%thinking reasoning |
| Long-context reasoning (AA-LCR)% of questions, higher is better 99 · 82 of 233 measured | 72.0% | 74.3%thinking reasoning |
| SciCode% of problems, higher is better 74 · 73 of 113 measured | 41.4% | 42.2%thinking reasoning |
| Terminal-Bench Hard% of tasks, higher is better 116 · 72 of 190 measured | 13.6% | 27.3%no reasoning |
| τ²-bench telecom% of tasks, higher is better 101 · 98 of 193 measured | 53.2% | 54.7%thinking reasoning |
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Quick answers
Is Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 better than Claude Haiku 4.5?
Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 if quality matters most: it scores higher (Intelligence Index 16.9 against 12.7). Pick Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 if cost matters more: it costs 2.1 times less per token.
Which is cheaper, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Claude Haiku 4.5?
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 is cheaper: $0.97 against $2.00 per million tokens, 2.1 times less.
Which is better for agents and tool use, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Claude Haiku 4.5?
Claude Haiku 4.5 ranks 91 of 164 models on sale for multi-step tasks with tools: support desks, coding agents, function calls, against 138 for Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507.
Which is better for reasoning and knowledge, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Claude Haiku 4.5?
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 ranks 117 of 198 models on sale for hard questions across science, maths and general knowledge, against 127 for Claude Haiku 4.5.
Which is better for writing, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Claude Haiku 4.5?
Claude Haiku 4.5 ranks 87 of 188 models on sale for what people prefer in blind comparisons, and judged writing quality, against 122 for Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507.
Which is better for sticking to the facts, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Claude Haiku 4.5?
Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 ranks 92 of 152 models on sale for summarising without inventing things, and factual answers, against 117 for Claude Haiku 4.5.
Which has the bigger context window, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507 or Claude Haiku 4.5?
Claude Haiku 4.5: 200,000 tokens, against 131,072 for Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507.
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