# Claude 3 Haiku vs Llama 3.1 8B

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude 3 Haiku and Llama 3.1 8B across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-3-haiku-vs-llama-3-1-8b
- Last updated: October 14, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 0
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5.8

## Quick Verdict

No benchmark verdict yet: there is no shared sourced benchmark row for Claude 3 Haiku and Llama 3.1 8B.

## Summary

- Claude 3 Haiku and Llama 3.1 8B do not currently share a sourced benchmark row. The mirror therefore compares metadata, pricing, context windows, and each model's separately reported coverage without naming a benchmark winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.1 8B |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Meta |
| Type | Proprietary | Open Weight |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 128K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | 14 | null |
| Benchmarks Covered | 0 | 7 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $0.25 / $1.25 | N/A |

## Category Breakdown

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.1 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| HumanEval | Coming soon | 72.6% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3 Haiku public-lane score: 44.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3 Haiku public-lane score: 29.8 (Unranked · 1 rankable row)
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3 Haiku public-lane score: 20.9 (Estimated · #176/181)
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.1 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MMLU | Coming soon | 73% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 48.3% | Coming soon |
| GPQA | Coming soon | 30.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.1 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| MGSM | Coming soon | 68.9% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3 Haiku public-lane score: 41.3 (#104/128)
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.1 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| IFEval | Coming soon | 80.4% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude 3 Haiku public-lane score: Coming soon
- Llama 3.1 8B public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude 3 Haiku | Llama 3.1 8B | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GSM8K | Coming soon | 84.5% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Can I compare Claude 3 Haiku and Llama 3.1 8B on BenchLM yet?

Not fully yet. BenchLM is tracking both models, but sourced benchmark coverage is still incomplete for a fair score-level comparison.

### Why does this page show "coming soon" values?

BenchLM only calls winners when public benchmark coverage is available on both sides of the comparison.

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- [Llama 3.1 8B vs Claude Opus 5.5](/compare/claude-opus-5-5-vs-llama-3-1-8b)
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- [Llama 3.1 8B vs GPT-6.1 Sol](/compare/gpt-6-1-sol-vs-llama-3-1-8b)

## Explore More

- [Claude 3 Haiku profile](/models/claude-3-haiku)
- [Llama 3.1 8B profile](/models/llama-3-1-8b)
- [Compare Pricing](/llm-pricing)
- [Alternative Finder](/tools/alternative-finder)
- [LLM Selector](/tools/llm-selector)
- [Overall Rankings](/best/overall)