Aion-2.0 vs Claude 3 Haiku

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

Aion-2.0 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 58 to 49. The gap is large enough that you do not need to squint at the spreadsheet to see the difference.

Aion-2.0's sharpest advantage is in instruction following, where it averages 93 against 76. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is OpenBookQA, 75 to 52. Claude 3 Haiku does hit back in multimodal & grounded, 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 128K for Aion-2.0.

Quick Verdict

Pick Aion-2.0 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3 Haiku only becomes the better choice if multimodal & grounded is the priority or you need the larger 200K context window.

Agentic

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

51.7

Claude 3 Haiku

44

48
Terminal-Bench 2.0
40
60
BrowseComp
53
50
OSWorld-Verified
42

Coding

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

33.2

Claude 3 Haiku

19.3

66
HumanEval
48
35
SWE-bench Verified
17
29
LiveCodeBench
20
37
SWE-bench Pro
19

Multimodal & Grounded

Claude 3 Haiku

Aion-2.0

66

Claude 3 Haiku

68.7

61
MMMU-Pro
70
72
OfficeQA Pro
67

Reasoning

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

70.3

Claude 3 Haiku

59.6

76
SimpleQA
54
74
MuSR
52
76
BBH
74
64
LongBench v2
63
65
MRCRv2
63

Knowledge

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

54

Claude 3 Haiku

42.8

78
MMLU
56
77
GPQA
56
75
SuperGPQA
54
75
OpenBookQA
52
67
MMLU-Pro
63
5
HLE
2
66
FrontierScience
50

Instruction Following

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

93

Claude 3 Haiku

76

93
IFEval
76

Multilingual

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

78.1

Claude 3 Haiku

71.1

80
MGSM
73
77
MMLU-ProX
70

Mathematics

Aion-2.0

Aion-2.0

72.1

Claude 3 Haiku

62.2

74
AIME 2023
56
76
AIME 2024
58
75
AIME 2025
57
70
HMMT Feb 2023
52
72
HMMT Feb 2024
54
71
HMMT Feb 2025
53
73
BRUMO 2025
55
71
MATH-500
71

Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Haiku?

Aion-2.0 is ahead overall, 58 to 49. The biggest single separator in this matchup is OpenBookQA, where the scores are 75 and 52.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Haiku?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 54 versus 42.8. Inside this category, OpenBookQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Haiku?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for coding in this comparison, averaging 33.2 versus 19.3. Inside this category, HumanEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for math, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Haiku?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 72.1 versus 62.2. Inside this category, AIME 2023 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Haiku?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 70.3 versus 59.6. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for agentic tasks, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Haiku?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for agentic tasks in this comparison, averaging 51.7 versus 44. Inside this category, Terminal-Bench 2.0 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multimodal and grounded tasks, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Haiku?

Claude 3 Haiku has the edge for multimodal and grounded tasks in this comparison, averaging 68.7 versus 66. Inside this category, MMMU-Pro is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for instruction following, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Haiku?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for instruction following in this comparison, averaging 93 versus 76. Inside this category, IFEval is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for multilingual tasks, Aion-2.0 or Claude 3 Haiku?

Aion-2.0 has the edge for multilingual tasks in this comparison, averaging 78.1 versus 71.1. Inside this category, MGSM is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 12, 2026

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