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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-4o-mini Search Preview

Side-by-side API pricing and Artificial Analysis performance for Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) and GPT-4o-mini Search Preview (OpenAI). Green cells mark the better value in each row.

Prices updated Jul 22, 2026, 1:42 AM UTC · refreshed hourly

Claude Haiku 4.5

Anthropic

GPT-4o-mini Search Preview

OpenAI

Pricing
Input $/1M$1.00$0.15
Output $/1M$5.00$0.60
Blended $/1M (3:1)$2.00$0.262
RAG example (30K in / 2K out)$0.04$0.0057
Quality & speed
Intelligence Index29.6
Coding Index43.9
Agentic Index16.4
Output speed (tok/s)
Time to first token
Specs
Context window200K128K
Input modalitiestext, image, filetext

FAQ

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 or GPT-4o-mini Search Preview?

GPT-4o-mini Search Preview has the lower blended API price at $0.262 per 1M tokens (3:1 input:output mix), versus $2.00 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), GPT-4o-mini Search Preview costs about $0.0057 per request versus $0.04. Also compare context windows: Claude Haiku 4.5 offers 200K and GPT-4o-mini Search Preview offers 128K.

Which scores higher on Artificial Analysis benchmarks?

Claude Haiku 4.5 leads on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index (29.6 vs —). Check coding and agentic indices on this page for workload-specific tradeoffs.