1-bit Bonsai 4B vs Claude 3 Haiku

Side-by-side benchmark comparison across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, and math workflows.

Agentic
Coding
Multimodal & Grounded
Reasoning
Knowledge
Instruction Following
Multilingual
Mathematics

1-bit Bonsai 4B· Claude 3 Haiku

Quick Verdict

Pick 1-bit Bonsai 4B if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3 Haiku only becomes the better choice if reasoning is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.

1-bit Bonsai 4B has the cleaner overall profile here, landing at 44 versus 42. It is a real lead, but still close enough that category-level strengths matter more than the headline number.

1-bit Bonsai 4B's sharpest advantage is in mathematics, where it averages 65.8 against 59.8. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 28.7% to 56%. Claude 3 Haiku does hit back in reasoning, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude 3 Haiku gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for 1-bit Bonsai 4B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*Pricing unavailable
SpeedN/A138 t/s
TTFTN/A1.16s
Context32K200K

Decision framing

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Runtime metrics show N/A when BenchLM does not have a sourced snapshot for that exact model. The scoring rules and freshness policy are documented on the methodology page.

Benchmark1-bit Bonsai 4BClaude 3 Haiku
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.040%
BrowseComp53%
OSWorld-Verified42%
Coding
HumanEval73%
SWE-bench Verified17%
LiveCodeBench20%
SWE-bench Pro19%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro70%
OfficeQA Pro67%
ReasoningClaude 3 Haiku wins
MuSR41.4%52%
BBH74%
LongBench v263%
MRCRv263%
KnowledgeClaude 3 Haiku wins
GPQA28.7%56%
MMLU75.2%
SuperGPQA54%
MMLU-Pro63%
HLE2%
FrontierScience50%
SimpleQA54%
Instruction FollowingClaude 3 Haiku wins
IFEval69.6%76%
Multilingual
MGSM73%
MMLU-ProX70%
Mathematics1-bit Bonsai 4B wins
MATH-50065.8%71%
AIME 202356%
AIME 202458%
AIME 202557%
HMMT Feb 202352%
HMMT Feb 202454%
HMMT Feb 202553%
BRUMO 202555%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Claude 3 Haiku?

1-bit Bonsai 4B is ahead overall, 44 to 42. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 28.7% and 56%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 43.5 versus 28.7. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Claude 3 Haiku?

1-bit Bonsai 4B has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 65.8 versus 59.8. Inside this category, MATH-500 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 60.1 versus 41.4. Inside this category, MuSR is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Claude 3 Haiku?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 76 versus 69.6. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 31, 2026

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