# Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Claude Opus 5

> Side-by-side benchmark comparison for Claude Haiku 4.5 and Claude Opus 5 across agentic, coding, multimodal, knowledge, reasoning, multilingual, and math tasks.

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

- Shared sourced benchmarks: 7
- HTML indexing: indexable
- Ranking lane: BenchAlign v5

## Quick Verdict

Pick Claude Opus 5 if you want the stronger benchmark profile. Claude Haiku 4.5 only makes more sense when its price, context window, or workload-specific category wins matter more than the overall score.

## Summary

- Claude Opus 5 leads overall 80.66 to 52.73.
- The clearest category separation is in agentic, where the averages are 27 for Claude Haiku 4.5 and 77.4 for Claude Opus 5.
- The biggest single benchmark swing is LiveCodeBench (Vals) in Coding, with scores of 41.2% and 89.0%.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 is the cheaper option on output tokens, which matters if you expect large responses or heavy interactive use.
- Claude Haiku 4.5 also has the larger context window at 200K.

## Model Snapshot

| Property | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Opus 5 |
|----------|----------|----------|
| Creator | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Type | Proprietary | Proprietary |
| Reasoning | Non-Reasoning | Reasoning |
| Context | 200K | null |
| Overall Score | 52.73 | 80.66 |
| Benchmarks Covered | 10 | 73 |
| Pricing (input/output) | $1.00 / $5.00 | $5.00 / $25.00 |

## Category Breakdown

### Agentic

- Winner: Claude Opus 5
- Claude Haiku 4.5 public-lane score: 27 (Supported · #143/151)
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 77.4 (Supported · #2/151)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Opus 5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| JobBench | 16.0% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| Terminal-Bench 2.1 (Vals) | 43.8% | 84.6% | Claude Opus 5 |
| Terminal-Bench 3.0 | Coming soon | 42.7% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/ tools | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| DeepSearchQA | Coming soon | 95.0% | Coming soon |
| DRACO | Coming soon | 88.6% | Coming soon |
| BrowseComp (10-agent, prerelease) | Coming soon | 93.6% | Coming soon |
| OSWorld 2.0 | Coming soon | 70.6% | Coming soon |
| MCP Atlas | Coming soon | 85.8% | Coming soon |
| MCP-Atlas claim coverage | Coming soon | 89.1% | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Anthropic harness) | Coming soon | 23.58% | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Anthropic harness) | Coming soon | 93.74% | Coming soon |
| LAB all-pass (Harvey held-out) | Coming soon | 11.7% | Coming soon |
| LAB criterion-pass (Harvey held-out) | Coming soon | 94.1% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon-Verified | Coming soon | 80.6% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass@3 | Coming soon | 87.0% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified Pass³ | Coming soon | 73.1% | Coming soon |
| Toolathlon Verified avg. turns | Coming soon | 23.5 turns | Coming soon |
| AutomationBench | Coming soon | 26.0% | Coming soon |

### Coding

- Winner: Claude Opus 5
- Claude Haiku 4.5 public-lane score: 27.3 (Supported · #173/183)
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 75.6 (Supported · #3/183)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Opus 5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.3% | 96% | Claude Opus 5 |
| VulcanBench v3 | 76.2% | 87.0% | Claude Opus 5 |
| LiveCodeBench (Vals) | 41.2% | 89.0% | Claude Opus 5 |
| SWE-bench (Vals) | 66.6% | 97.0% | Claude Opus 5 |
| Bug Hunt Bench | Coming soon | 27 fixes | Coming soon |
| SWE-bench Pro | Coming soon | 79.2% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multilingual | Coming soon | 89.5% | Coming soon |
| SWE Multimodal | Coming soon | 59.4% | Coming soon |
| deepSwe | Coming soon | 68.8% | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Main | Coming soon | 53.4% | Coming soon |
| FrontierCode 1.1 Extended | Coming soon | 63.6% | Coming soon |
| FrontierSWE v2 | Coming soon | 52.0% | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench (episode 1) | Coming soon | 83.0% | Coming soon |
| ProgramBench | Coming soon | 93.0% | Coming soon |
| cursorBench32 | Coming soon | 70.0% | Coming soon |
| VulcanBench CII v1 | Coming soon | 96.4% | Coming soon |

### Multimodal & Grounded

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Haiku 4.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 88.7 (#2/48)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Opus 5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| Chartography (no tools) | Coming soon | 29.6% | Coming soon |
| Chartography (tools) | Coming soon | 83.0% | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (no tools) | Coming soon | 0.366 | Coming soon |
| BenchCAD Vision2Code (tools) | Coming soon | 0.821 | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (no tools) | Coming soon | 83.4% | Coming soon |
| GDP.pdf (tools) | Coming soon | 85.5% | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA | Coming soon | 78.1% | Coming soon |
| OfficeQA Pro | Coming soon | 66.9% | Coming soon |

### Reasoning

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Haiku 4.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 75.6 (#13/22)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Opus 5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| ARC-AGI-1 | Coming soon | 97.50% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-2 | Coming soon | 90.4% | Coming soon |
| ARC-AGI-3 | Coming soon | 30.2% | Coming soon |

### Knowledge

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Haiku 4.5 public-lane score: 44.6 (Estimated · #117/181)
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: 82.1 (Supported · #3/181)

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Opus 5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GPQA Diamond (Vals) | 72.2% | 93.4% | Claude Opus 5 |
| MMLU-Pro (Vals) | 78.7% | 91.6% | Claude Opus 5 |
| HLE | Coming soon | 64.7% | Coming soon |
| HLE w/o tools | Coming soon | 56.3% | Coming soon |
| HLE-Verified | Coming soon | 54.4% | Coming soon |
| LABBench2 | Coming soon | 84.2% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (raw) | Coming soon | 67.1% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench (length-adjusted) | Coming soon | 57.8% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional | Coming soon | 59.8% | Coming soon |
| HealthBench Professional (raw) | Coming soon | 73.4% | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-solvable) | Coming soon | 90.1% | Coming soon |
| BioMysteryBench (human-difficult) | Coming soon | 49.4% | Coming soon |
| SpatialBench Verified | Coming soon | 72.5% | Coming soon |
| SingleCellBench | Coming soon | 60.6% | Coming soon |
| ProteinGym Hard | Coming soon | 47.7% | Coming soon |
| Protein Design | Coming soon | 42.5% | Coming soon |
| Organic chemistry V2 | Coming soon | 61.6% | Coming soon |
| Protocols (troubleshooting) | Coming soon | 61.1% | Coming soon |
| Protocols (understanding) | Coming soon | 78.4% | Coming soon |

### Multilingual

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Haiku 4.5 public-lane score: Coming soon
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Opus 5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| GMMLU | Coming soon | 92.5% | Coming soon |
| MILU | Coming soon | 92.1% | Coming soon |
| INCLUDE | Coming soon | 89.8% | Coming soon |

### Mathematics

- Winner: Coming soon
- Claude Haiku 4.5 public-lane score: 28.9 (Unranked · 2 rankable rows)
- Claude Opus 5 public-lane score: Coming soon

| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Opus 5 | Winner |
|-----------|-----------|-----------|--------|
| FrontierMath v2 (Tiers 1-3) | 5.903% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| FrontierMath v2 (Tier 4) | 2.083% | Coming soon | Coming soon |
| IMO 2026 | Coming soon | 42/42 | Coming soon |
| RiemannBench (no tools) | Coming soon | 60.0% | Coming soon |
| RiemannBench (tools) | Coming soon | 79.0% | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Jun. 2026 (no tools) | Coming soon | 90.8% | Coming soon |
| ArXivMath Jun. 2026 (tools) | Coming soon | 91.3% | Coming soon |

## FAQ

### Which is better overall, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Claude Opus 5?

Claude Opus 5 is ahead overall on BenchLM right now.

### Where is the biggest gap between Claude Haiku 4.5 and Claude Opus 5?

The widest category gap is in agentic, where the averages are 27 for Claude Haiku 4.5 and 77.4 for Claude Opus 5.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Haiku 4.5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Haiku 4.5 currently has 10 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

### How many benchmarks does Claude Opus 5 cover on BenchLM?

Claude Opus 5 currently has 73 sourced benchmark scores on BenchLM.

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