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Claude 3 Haiku

Legacy

Claude 3 Haiku is the fast Claude 3-era model for simple tasks and high throughput. Prefer 3.5 Haiku when available for better quality at similar latency targets—confirm SKUs on your cloud path.

Best for:High-volume lightweight assistantsCost tier:
Compared to:Claude 3.5 HaikuReplaces:Claude 3 Sonnet

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Updated 1 day ago · Verified Apr 2026 · Score 78

Decision summary

Why teams reach for it, where it fits, and what to watch for — before you dive into specs.

Why teams choose it

  • Legacy deployments should plan upgrades to 3.5 tiers.
  • Price/performance vs GPT-4o mini depends on workload—A/B test.

Best use cases

  • Use this when high-volume lightweight assistants
  • Use this when pre-filtering prompts

Tradeoffs

  • Outclassed by newer Sonnet/Haiku generations on reasoning.
  • Check deprecation notices for long-term roadmaps.

Technical details

Modalities, benchmarks, and release context.

Modalities

What goes in and what comes out.

Inputs
text, image
Outputs
text
Capabilities
low latency, simple chat
Release: ·License: See vendor

Benchmarks snapshot

Structured JSON for reproducible comparisons.

No benchmark data yet — see comparisons for relative performance.

Family lineup

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Continue exploring

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