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GPT-4.1 Paid vs Claude Haiku 4.5 Paid

GPT-4.1 vs Claude Haiku 4.5 compared — price per token, context window, multimodality, openness and which to choose. Full 2026 breakdown.

Prices & specs refreshed from live data · OpenSourceAI.tech

Open-model prices = cheapest provider via OpenRouter; official maker rates may be higher.

Choose Claude Haiku 4.5 for the lower output price ($5/M vs $8/M). Choose GPT-4.1 if you need the larger 1M context window.

GPT-4.1 vs Claude Haiku 4.5 specs

SpecGPT-4.1Claude Haiku 4.5
MakerOpenAIAnthropic
TypeProprietaryProprietary
Context window1M tokens200K tokens
Input price$2/M$1/M
Output price$8/M$5/M
Vision / multimodalYesYes
Tool / function callingYesYes
Self-hostableNo (API only)No (API only)
LicenseProprietaryProprietary

Feature comparison

CapabilityGPT-4.1Claude Haiku 4.5
Open weights (downloadable)
Self-hostable
Runs fully offline
Vision / multimodal
Tool / function calling
1M+ context window

Benchmarks: GPT-4.1 vs Claude Haiku 4.5

Independent benchmark scores measured by Artificial Analysis. Higher is better (except latency).

GPT-4.1
Claude Haiku 4.5
Intelligence index
19.4
Math index
34.7
GPQA
66.6%
MMLU-Pro
80.6%
Humanity's Last Exam
4.6%
Long Context Reasoning
61%
LiveCodeBench
45.7%
SciCode
38.1%
MATH-500
91.3%
AIME
43.7%
AIME 2025
34.7%
IFBench
43%
τ²-Bench
47.1%
Terminal-Bench Hard
13.6%
Speed
150.8 tok/s
Latency
0.56s
Intelligence per $
5.5

Benchmark data by Artificial Analysis.

How GPT-4.1 and Claude Haiku 4.5 score

🤝 Neck and neck on these criteria (3.2 vs 3.1 / 5).
CriterionGPT-4.1Claude Haiku 4.5
Cost-efficiency3.54.0
Context window5.04.0
Openness1.51.5
Self-hosting1.01.0
Multimodality5.05.0

Scores come from live data — output price (cost), context length, open vs closed weights (openness & self-hosting) and vision/tool support (multimodality). Raw task quality isn't scored here; it depends on your benchmark — see the verdict.

What each model is

GPT-4.1 Paid

OpenAI · Proprietary

GPT-4.1 is a flagship large language model optimized for advanced instruction following, real-world software engineering, and long-context reasoning. It supports a 1 million token context window and outperforms GPT-4o and...

Claude Haiku 4.5 Paid

Anthropic · Proprietary

Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and most efficient model, delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost and latency of larger Claude models. Matching Claude Sonnet 4’s performance...

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Frequently asked questions

GPT-4.1 vs Claude Haiku 4.5 — which is cheaper?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is cheaper on output ($5/M vs $8/M).

Which has the larger context window?

GPT-4.1 offers the larger context window (1M tokens).

GPT-4.1 vs Claude Haiku 4.5 — which should I pick in 2026?

Choose Claude Haiku 4.5 for the lower output price ($5/M vs $8/M). Choose GPT-4.1 if you need the larger 1M context window.

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