# Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Grok 2 mini

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude 3.5 Haiku and Grok 2 mini across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-3-5-haiku-vs-grok-2-mini
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

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

## Quick Verdict

Pick Grok 2 mini if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude 3.5 Haiku only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Grok 2 mini leads overall 63 to 47.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is GPQA in Knowledge, with scores of 41.6% and 51%.
- Claude 3.5 Haiku also has the larger context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Grok 2 mini |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | xAI |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | Unknown |
| Overall Score | null | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 10 | 5 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 2 mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Grok 2 mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | 88.1% | 85.7% | Claude 3.5 Haiku |
| SWE-bench Verified | 40.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 2 mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Grok 2 mini | 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
- Grok 2 mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Grok 2 mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMMU | Coming soon | 63.2% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 2 mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Grok 2 mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | 41.6% | 51% | Grok 2 mini |
| MMLU-Pro | 65% | 72% | Grok 2 mini |
| MMLU | 80.3% | 86.2% | Grok 2 mini |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 2 mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Grok 2 mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | 85.6% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 2 mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Grok 2 mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | 85.9% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Not comparable
- Claude 3.5 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Grok 2 mini public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3.5 Haiku | Grok 2 mini | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| AIME 2024 | 5.3% | Coming soon | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude 3.5 Haiku or Grok 2 mini?

Grok 2 mini 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 Grok 2 mini cover on BenchLM?

Grok 2 mini currently has 5 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

## Related Comparisons

- [Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Grok 2](/compare/claude-3-5-haiku-vs-grok-2)
- [Grok 2 mini vs Grok 2](/compare/grok-2-vs-grok-2-mini)
- [Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-3-5-haiku-vs-claude-opus-5-5)
- [Grok 2 mini vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-grok-2-mini)

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- [Claude 3.5 Haiku profile](/models/claude-3-5-haiku)
- [Grok 2 mini profile](/models/grok-2-mini)
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