# Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking vs Claude Sonnet 4.6

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.6 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

- Canonical page: https://benchlm.ai/compare/claude-haiku-4-5-thinking-vs-claude-sonnet-4-6
- Last updated: September 4, 2026

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 1
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Evidence is too thin for a benchmark verdict: Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.6 share only 1 sourced benchmark row.

## Summary

- Only 1 shared sourced benchmark row is available. That is not enough for a broad capability verdict, so this mirror does not name an overall winner.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Reasoning | Non-Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | 200K |
| Independent public score (not head-to-head) | null | 64.21 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 1 | 25 |
| Pricing (input/output) | N/A | $3.00 / $15.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 45 (Supported · #96/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Terminal-Bench 2.0 | Coming soon | 59.1% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld-Verified | Coming soon | 72.1% | Coming soon |
| Claw-Eval | Coming soon | 67.8% | Coming soon |
| CyberGym | Coming soon | 65.2% | Coming soon |
| Gert Labs | Coming soon | 62.92% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 8.3% | Coming soon |
| JobBench | Coming soon | 36.9% | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | Coming soon | 57.3% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 52.4 (Supported · #55/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Vibe Code Bench | 11.39% | 51.48% | Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
| SWE-bench Verified | Coming soon | 79.6% | Coming soon |
| SWE-Rebench | Coming soon | 60.7% | Coming soon |
| React Native Evals | Coming soon | 80.6% | Coming soon |
| cursorBench31 | Coming soon | 48.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | Coming soon | 24.3% | Coming soon |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | Coming soon | 82.1% | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 54.1 (#33/48)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| CharXiv | Coming soon | 77.4% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 65.8 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

### Knowledge

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 56.7 (Supported · #51/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA | Coming soon | 89.9% | Coming soon |
| SuperGPQA | Coming soon | 95% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro | Coming soon | 79.2% | Coming soon |
| HLE | Coming soon | 49% | Coming soon |
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | Coming soon | 85.6% | Coming soon |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | Coming soon | 87.3% | Coming soon |

### Instruction Following

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 47.9 (#84/120)

### Mathematics

- Winner: Insufficient shared evidence
- Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 public-lane score: 49 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking | Claude Sonnet 4.6 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | Coming soon | 32.400% | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | Coming soon | 8.300% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Is there enough evidence to pick between Claude Haiku 4.5 Thinking and Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Not yet. The models share only 1 sourced benchmark row, so this mirror reports the available measurements and metadata without naming a broad winner.

### What can I compare safely on this page?

Published pricing, context windows, model type, and individual shared benchmark rows are directly comparable. Independent overall scores and non-overlapping benchmark coverage are labeled separately and should not be read as a controlled head-to-head result.

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- [Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Claude Haiku 4.5](/compare/claude-haiku-4-5-vs-claude-sonnet-4-6)
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- [Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Claude Fable 5.1](/compare/claude-fable-5-1-vs-claude-sonnet-4-6)

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