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Claude 3 Haiku vs GPT-5.6 Sol

Side-by-side API pricing and Artificial Analysis performance for Claude 3 Haiku (Anthropic) and GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI). Green cells mark the better value in each row.

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:38 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

Claude 3 Haiku

Anthropic

GPT-5.6 Sol

OpenAI

Pricing
Input $/1M$0.25$5.00
Output $/1M$1.25$30.00
Blended $/1M (3:1)$0.50$11.25
RAG example (30K in / 2K out)$0.01$0.21
Quality & speed
Intelligence Index3.958.9
Coding Index77.4
Agentic Index54
Output speed (tok/s)070
Time to first token0s112.90s
Specs
Context window200K1.05M
Input modalitiestext, imagefile, image, text

FAQ

Which is cheaper, Claude 3 Haiku or GPT-5.6 Sol?

Claude 3 Haiku has the lower blended API price at $0.50 per 1M tokens (3:1 input:output mix), versus $11.25 for the other model. Prices are live from OpenRouter and refresh about hourly.

Which is better for RAG workloads?

For a typical RAG request (30K input / 2K output tokens), Claude 3 Haiku costs about $0.01 per request versus $0.21. Also compare context windows: Claude 3 Haiku offers 200K and GPT-5.6 Sol offers 1.05M.

Which scores higher on Artificial Analysis benchmarks?

GPT-5.6 Sol leads on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (58.9 vs 3.9). Check coding and agentic indices on this page for workload-specific tradeoffs.