1-bit Bonsai 4B vs Claude Haiku 4.5

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 Haiku 4.5

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. 1-bit Bonsai 4B only becomes the better choice if you want the cheaper token bill.

Claude Haiku 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 63 to 44. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Claude Haiku 4.5's sharpest advantage is in reasoning, where it averages 68.9 against 41.4. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is GPQA, 28.7% to 67%.

Claude Haiku 4.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.80 input / $4.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.00 input / $0.00 output per 1M tokens for 1-bit Bonsai 4B. That is roughly Infinityx on output cost alone. Claude Haiku 4.5 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 32K for 1-bit Bonsai 4B.

Operational tradeoffs

PriceFree*$0.80 / $4.00
SpeedN/AN/A
TTFTN/AN/A
Context32K200K

Decision framing

BenchLM keeps the benchmark table and the operator tradeoffs on the same page so a better score does not hide a materially slower, pricier, or smaller-context model.

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 Haiku 4.5
Agentic
Terminal-Bench 2.041%
BrowseComp62%
OSWorld-Verified57%
Coding
HumanEval60%
SWE-bench Verified73.3%
LiveCodeBench36%
SWE-bench Pro46%
FLTEval23%
Multimodal & Grounded
MMMU-Pro82%
OfficeQA Pro74%
ReasoningClaude Haiku 4.5 wins
MuSR41.4%63%
BBH81%
LongBench v272%
MRCRv270%
KnowledgeClaude Haiku 4.5 wins
GPQA28.7%67%
MMLU68%
SuperGPQA65%
MMLU-Pro73%
HLE11%
FrontierScience64%
SimpleQA65%
Instruction FollowingClaude Haiku 4.5 wins
IFEval69.6%86%
Multilingual
MGSM82%
MMLU-ProX79%
MathematicsClaude Haiku 4.5 wins
MATH-50065.8%81%
AIME 202368%
AIME 202470%
AIME 202569%
HMMT Feb 202364%
HMMT Feb 202466%
HMMT Feb 202565%
BRUMO 202567%
Frequently Asked Questions (5)

Which is better, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Claude Haiku 4.5?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is ahead overall, 63 to 44. The biggest single separator in this matchup is GPQA, where the scores are 28.7% and 67%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, 1-bit Bonsai 4B or Claude Haiku 4.5?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54.4 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 Haiku 4.5?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 71.3 versus 65.8. 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 Haiku 4.5?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 68.9 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 Haiku 4.5?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 86 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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