# Claude 3.5 Haiku vs GPT-4.1

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude 3.5 Haiku and GPT-4.1 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-3-5-haiku-vs-gpt-4-1
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 4
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude 3.5 Haiku if you want the stronger benchmark profile. GPT-4.1 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude 3.5 Haiku leads overall 47 to 37.38.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 41.6% and 66.3%.
- GPT-4.1 also has the larger context window at 1M.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude 3.5 Haiku | GPT-4.1 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | OpenAI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 1M |
| Overall Score | null | 37.38 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 10 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $2.00 / $8.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | GPT-4.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 25.65% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | GPT-4.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 88.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Verified | 40.6% | 54.6% | GPT-4.1 |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: 72.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | GPT-4.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| BBH | 86.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| DROP | 83.1% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: 54.7 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: 35.8 (Supported · #131/181)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | GPT-4.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 41.6% | 66.3% | GPT-4.1 |
| MMLU-Pro | 65% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU | 80.3% | 90.2% | GPT-4.1 |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: 61.5 (#14/17)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | GPT-4.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| MMLU-ProX | Coming soon | 72.7% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: 50.3 (#83/128)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | GPT-4.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 85.9% | 87.4% | GPT-4.1 |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- GPT-4.1 public-lane score: 27 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | GPT-4.1 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 5.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 5.965% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude 3.5 Haiku or GPT-4.1?

Claude 3.5 Haiku is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### How many benchmarks does Claude 3.5 Haiku cover on BenchLM?

Claude 3.5 Haiku currently has 10 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does GPT-4.1 cover on BenchLM?

GPT-4.1 currently has 7 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

## Related Comparisons

- [Claude 3.5 Haiku vs GPT-4.1 mini](/compare/claude-3-5-haiku-vs-gpt-4-1-mini)
- [GPT-4.1 vs GPT-4.1 mini](/compare/gpt-4-1-vs-gpt-4-1-mini)
- [Claude 3.5 Haiku vs GPT-4.1 nano](/compare/claude-3-5-haiku-vs-gpt-4-1-nano)
- [GPT-4.1 vs GPT-4.1 nano](/compare/gpt-4-1-vs-gpt-4-1-nano)

## Explore More

- [Claude 3.5 Haiku profile](/models/claude-3-5-haiku)
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