Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Grok 3 Mini

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

Claude Haiku 4.5 is clearly ahead on the aggregate, 30 to 23. 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 63.9 against 21.7. The single biggest benchmark swing on the page is SimpleQA, 65% to 21.7%. Grok 3 Mini does hit back in knowledge, so the answer changes if that is the part of the workload you care about most.

Claude Haiku 4.5 is also the more expensive model on tokens at $0.80 input / $4.00 output per 1M tokens, versus $0.30 input / $0.50 output per 1M tokens for Grok 3 Mini. That is roughly 8.0x on output cost alone. Claude Haiku 4.5 gives you the larger context window at 200K, compared with 128K for Grok 3 Mini.

Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Haiku 4.5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Grok 3 Mini only becomes the better choice if knowledge is the priority or you want the cheaper token bill.

Agentic

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Coding

Tie

Claude Haiku 4.5

41.5

Grok 3 Mini

41.5

60%
HumanEval
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23%
FLTEval
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LiveCodeBench
41.5%

Multimodal & Grounded

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Reasoning

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

63.9

Grok 3 Mini

21.7

65%
SimpleQA
21.7%
63%
MuSR
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Knowledge

Grok 3 Mini

Claude Haiku 4.5

66

Grok 3 Mini

74.1

68%
MMLU
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67%
GPQA
66.2%
65%
SuperGPQA
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63%
OpenBookQA
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MMLU-Pro
78.9%

Instruction Following

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Multilingual

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Mathematics

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5

67

Grok 3 Mini

39.7

68%
AIME 2023
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70%
AIME 2024
39.7%
69%
AIME 2025
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64%
HMMT Feb 2023
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66%
HMMT Feb 2024
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65%
HMMT Feb 2025
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67%
BRUMO 2025
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Frequently Asked Questions

Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Grok 3 Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is ahead overall, 30 to 23. The biggest single separator in this matchup is SimpleQA, where the scores are 65% and 21.7%.

Which is better for knowledge tasks, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Grok 3 Mini?

Grok 3 Mini has the edge for knowledge tasks in this comparison, averaging 74.1 versus 66. Inside this category, GPQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for coding, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Grok 3 Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 and Grok 3 Mini are effectively tied for coding here, both landing at 41.5 on average.

Which is better for math, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Grok 3 Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for math in this comparison, averaging 67 versus 39.7. Inside this category, AIME 2024 is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Which is better for reasoning, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Grok 3 Mini?

Claude Haiku 4.5 has the edge for reasoning in this comparison, averaging 63.9 versus 21.7. Inside this category, SimpleQA is the benchmark that creates the most daylight between them.

Last updated: March 17, 2026

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