Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-5 mini: Cheapest Frontier Chat Models

Claude Haiku 4.5GPT-5 mini
arenaElo12741288
humanEval78.281
sweBench40.650
mmlu81.582.4
gpqa4850.1
aime6078
Price in/out ($/M)$1 / $5$0.25 / $2

Our verdict

GPT-5 mini is cheaper per token ($0.25 vs $1 input) and has 2× the context. Haiku has tighter coding and better safety defaults. Default to GPT-5 mini; upgrade to Haiku if Anthropic compliance matters.

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