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Claude Haiku 4 vs GPT-4o mini

Side-by-side API pricing and capability comparison

Anthropic

Claude Haiku 4

Anthropic's fastest and most compact model — optimal for high-volume, latency-sensitive tasks.

Input /1M

$0.800

Output /1M

$4.00

Context

200K

Tier

economy

Prompt caching: $0.080/1M input

Full Claude Haiku 4 pricing →

OpenAI

GPT-4o mini

Small and affordable — best value for lightweight tasks, classification, and extraction.

Input /1M

$0.150

Output /1M

$0.600

Context

128K

Tier

economy

Prompt caching: $0.075/1M input

Full GPT-4o mini pricing →

Monthly Cost Comparison

Usage scenarioClaude Haiku 4GPT-4o miniCheaper by

Light usage

50K in + 20K out /day

$3.60$0.58GPT-4o mini 84% cheaper

Medium usage

500K in + 150K out /day

$30.00$4.95GPT-4o mini 84% cheaper

Heavy usage

3000K in + 1000K out /day

$192.00$31.50GPT-4o mini 84% cheaper

Feature Comparison

Vision / Multimodal
Yes
Yes
Extended reasoning
No
No
Prompt caching
Yes
Yes
200K context
Vision
Tool use
Batch API
Fastest Anthropic model
128K context

When to Use Each

Choose Claude Haiku 4 when:

  • You need a larger context window (200K vs 128K)
  • You prefer Anthropic's ecosystem and tooling

Choose GPT-4o mini when:

  • Cost efficiency is critical — 81% cheaper input
  • You prefer OpenAI's ecosystem and tooling

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