Model vs model
Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 are both in llmwise. What each gets on every plan, what it reads, how it's served and what happens when its provider fails, from the catalog and the code that runs them.
Model prices and specs checked against OpenRouter's Claude Opus 5.5 page, OpenRouter's Claude Haiku 4.5 page. Updated .
Short answer
Claude Haiku 4.5 gets four times as many messages: up to 250 messages a month on Pro, against up to 62 messages a month for Claude Opus 5.5. Otherwise, only Claude Opus 5.5 can be passed to another model by its maker's safety system and only Claude Haiku 4.5 is in the free trial. In our test runs, Claude Opus 5.5 passed 49 of the 50 prompts both answered and Claude Haiku 4.5 43; 8 prompts split them, most on coding (5 to 3).
Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Haiku 4.5, prompt by prompt
Every prompt Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 both answered, compared directly, their biggest differences first. One run each, through OpenRouter: a wait depends on the provider and the load that day, so a lead under 10% counts as close.
Of the 50 prompts both answered, both passed 42, only Claude Opus 5.5 passed 7, only Claude Haiku 4.5 passed 1, and neither passed 0. Claude Opus 5.5 answered sooner on 0 of the 50 and Claude Haiku 4.5 on 47; the rest were within 10% of each other. The 50 replies cost $0.5360 on Claude Opus 5.5 and $0.0741 on Claude Haiku 4.5: 7.2× less on Claude Haiku 4.5.
The 8 prompts only one of Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 passed
Evaluate an arithmetic expression, no eval (coding): Claude Opus 5.5 passed and Claude Haiku 4.5 didn't. Claude Opus 5.5: All 15 tests passed. Claude Haiku 4.5: 14 of 15 tests passed. First failure: evaluate("-2 ^ 2"): Expected values to be strictly deep-equal:
Parse CSV with quoted fields (coding): Claude Opus 5.5 passed and Claude Haiku 4.5 didn't. Claude Opus 5.5: All 8 tests passed. Claude Haiku 4.5: 5 of 8 tests passed. First failure: parseCsv('"line1\nline2",end\r\nnext,row\r\n'): Expected values to be strictly deep-equal:
A product announcement with five rules (writing): Claude Opus 5.5 passed and Claude Haiku 4.5 didn't. Claude Opus 5.5: Graded 4.7 of 5 on average (lowest 4). Claude Haiku 4.5: Graded 3.7 of 5 on average (lowest 3).
Argue both sides of free buses (writing): Claude Haiku 4.5 passed and Claude Opus 5.5 didn't. Claude Opus 5.5: Graded 4.7 of 5 on average (lowest 4); but a paragraph of 93 words, over the 90 allowed. Claude Haiku 4.5: Graded 4.0 of 5 on average (lowest 4).
Average order value in August (data analysis): Claude Opus 5.5 passed and Claude Haiku 4.5 didn't. Claude Opus 5.5: Final answer 300.00: right. Claude Haiku 4.5: Final answer 275.00; expected 300.
Correlation between ad spend and sign-ups (data analysis): Claude Opus 5.5 passed and Claude Haiku 4.5 didn't. Claude Opus 5.5: Final answer 0.97: right. Claude Haiku 4.5: Final answer 0.99; expected 0.97.
A frustrated customer (customer support): Claude Opus 5.5 passed and Claude Haiku 4.5 didn't. Claude Opus 5.5: Graded 4.0 of 5 on average (lowest 3). Claude Haiku 4.5: Graded 3.3 of 5 on average (lowest 3).
A message with a planted instruction (customer support): Claude Opus 5.5 passed and Claude Haiku 4.5 didn't. Claude Opus 5.5: Graded 4.3 of 5 on average (lowest 3). Claude Haiku 4.5: Graded 4.3 of 5 on average (lowest 3); but 165 words, over the 150 allowed.
Job by job, the widest gaps first
Customer support: Claude Opus 5.5 passed 5 of 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 3 of 5. Claude Haiku 4.5 answered 2.4× sooner at the median, 6.4 s against 2.7 s. Claude Haiku 4.5 cost 7.4× less, $0.0540 against $0.0073 for the 5 replies. Claude Opus 5.5's replies ran 27% longer, in tokens of reply, thinking not counted.
Coding: Claude Opus 5.5 passed 5 of 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 3 of 5. Claude Haiku 4.5 answered 3.1× sooner at the median, 7.2 s against 2.3 s. Claude Haiku 4.5 cost 6.2× less, $0.0853 against $0.0137 for the 5 replies. Their replies ran to about the same length.
Data analysis: Claude Opus 5.5 passed 5 of 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 3 of 5. Claude Haiku 4.5 answered 1.7× sooner at the median, 4.6 s against 2.7 s. Claude Haiku 4.5 cost 5.2× less, $0.0654 against $0.0125 for the 5 replies. Claude Haiku 4.5's replies ran 76% longer, in tokens of reply, thinking not counted.
Writing: Claude Opus 5.5 passed 4 of 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 4 of 5. Claude Haiku 4.5 answered 3.7× sooner at the median, 8.2 s against 2.2 s. Claude Haiku 4.5 cost 16.3× less, $0.0923 against $0.0057 for the 5 replies. Claude Opus 5.5's replies ran 55% longer, in tokens of reply, thinking not counted.
Summarization: Claude Opus 5.5 passed 5 of 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 5 of 5. Claude Haiku 4.5 answered 2.2× sooner at the median, 3.7 s against 1.7 s. Claude Haiku 4.5 cost 9.3× less, $0.0475 against $0.0051 for the 5 replies. Claude Opus 5.5's replies ran 74% longer, in tokens of reply, thinking not counted.
SQL: Claude Opus 5.5 passed 5 of 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 5 of 5. Claude Haiku 4.5 answered 3.5× sooner at the median, 4.3 s against 1.2 s. Claude Haiku 4.5 cost 9.3× less, $0.0459 against $0.0049 for the 5 replies. Claude Opus 5.5's replies ran 114% longer, in tokens of reply, thinking not counted.
Translation: Claude Opus 5.5 passed 5 of 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 5 of 5. Claude Haiku 4.5 answered 3.0× sooner at the median, 5.5 s against 1.8 s. Claude Haiku 4.5 cost 7.3× less, $0.0540 against $0.0074 for the 5 replies. Claude Opus 5.5's replies ran 11% longer, in tokens of reply, thinking not counted.
RAG and answering from documents: Claude Opus 5.5 passed 5 of 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 5 of 5. Claude Haiku 4.5 answered 2.4× sooner at the median, 2.9 s against 1.2 s. Claude Haiku 4.5 cost 7.3× less, $0.0367 against $0.0050 for the 5 replies. Claude Opus 5.5's replies ran 29% longer, in tokens of reply, thinking not counted.
Agents and tool use: Claude Opus 5.5 passed 5 of 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 5 of 5. Claude Haiku 4.5 answered 2.8× sooner at the median, 3.1 s against 1.1 s. Claude Haiku 4.5 cost 5.3× less, $0.0252 against $0.0047 for the 5 replies. Claude Haiku 4.5's replies ran 26% longer, in tokens of reply, thinking not counted.
Math: Claude Opus 5.5 passed 5 of 5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 5 of 5. Claude Haiku 4.5 answered 1.7× sooner at the median, 3.9 s against 2.2 s. Claude Haiku 4.5 cost 3.9× less, $0.0298 against $0.0077 for the 5 replies. Claude Haiku 4.5's replies ran 64% longer, in tokens of reply, thinking not counted.
All 50 prompts: who passed, who answered sooner, who cost less
| Prompt | Result | Sooner | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|
| Turn a title into a URL slug | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.0×took 3.1 s and 1.5 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 5.8×cost $0.0055 and $0.0010 |
| Parse a duration like “1h 30m” | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.1×took 7.2 s and 2.3 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 5.2×cost $0.0112 and $0.0022 |
| Merge overlapping intervals | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 1.9×took 3.7 s and 2.0 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 4.6×cost $0.0077 and $0.0017 |
| Evaluate an arithmetic expression, no eval | Only Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.1×took 15.8 s and 7.6 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 6.0×cost $0.0336 and $0.0056 |
| Parse CSV with quoted fields | Only Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.4×took 11.9 s and 3.5 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 8.2×cost $0.0273 and $0.0033 |
| Announce a second bakery shop on LinkedIn | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.4×took 8.7 s and 2.6 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 13.8×cost $0.0175 and $0.0013 |
| Rewrite corporate jargon in plain words | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.1×took 5.1 s and 1.6 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 9.5×cost $0.0078 and $0.0008 |
| Decline a meeting and offer two times | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.0×took 4.1 s and 2.0 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 5.7×cost $0.0056 and $0.0010 |
| A product announcement with five rules | Only Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.7×took 8.2 s and 2.2 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 14.1×cost $0.0170 and $0.0012 |
| Argue both sides of free buses | Only Claude Haiku 4.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5, 6.5×took 22.5 s and 3.4 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 31.9×cost $0.0443 and $0.0014 |
| A discount, then sales tax | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.4×took 2.7 s and 1.1 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 4.9×cost $0.0037 and $0.0007 |
| Pens at 3 for $4 | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.5×took 5.3 s and 2.2 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 5.9×cost $0.0084 and $0.0014 |
| Compound interest over three years | Both passed | Closetook 3.7 s and 3.5 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.3×cost $0.0043 and $0.0013 |
| Four-digit numbers whose digits sum to 9 | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 1.7×took 4.7 s and 2.9 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.2×cost $0.0077 and $0.0024 |
| The highest of three dice is a 5 | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 1.7×took 3.9 s and 2.2 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.2×cost $0.0057 and $0.0018 |
| An article in three bullets | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 4.5×took 8.1 s and 1.8 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 15.9×cost $0.0171 and $0.0011 |
| An email thread in one sentence | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.0×took 2.6 s and 1.3 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 6.1×cost $0.0044 and $0.0007 |
| Decisions and action items from a meeting | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.5×took 5.8 s and 1.7 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 11.1×cost $0.0118 and $0.0011 |
| A quarterly memo for the CEO | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.3×took 3.5 s and 1.5 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 6.2×cost $0.0075 and $0.0012 |
| A study with a negative result | Both passed | Closetook 3.7 s and 3.4 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 6.6×cost $0.0066 and $0.0010 |
| The region with the most revenue | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 1.5×took 4.1 s and 2.7 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.3×cost $0.0087 and $0.0026 |
| Average order value in August | Only Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.1×took 4.4 s and 2.1 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 4.6×cost $0.0107 and $0.0023 |
| Revenue change from July to August | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 1.2×took 5.1 s and 4.2 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 5.4×cost $0.0120 and $0.0022 |
| A median, filtered two ways | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.3×took 4.6 s and 2.0 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 4.8×cost $0.0079 and $0.0016 |
| Correlation between ad spend and sign-ups | Only Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.3×took 11.5 s and 5.0 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 7.1×cost $0.0261 and $0.0037 |
| A late order | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.9×took 7.8 s and 2.0 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 8.4×cost $0.0114 and $0.0014 |
| A return inside the window | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 1.9×took 4.4 s and 2.4 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 5.6×cost $0.0074 and $0.0013 |
| A frustrated customer | Only Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.2×took 6.4 s and 3.0 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 7.1×cost $0.0111 and $0.0016 |
| A refund request outside the window | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.2×took 6.1 s and 2.7 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 8.2×cost $0.0106 and $0.0013 |
| A message with a planted instruction | Only Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.5×took 7.9 s and 3.2 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 7.6×cost $0.0136 and $0.0018 |
| A delivery message into Spanish | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.1×took 3.2 s and 1.5 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 5.6×cost $0.0064 and $0.0011 |
| A product description into French | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 4.1×took 5.8 s and 1.4 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 9.9×cost $0.0113 and $0.0011 |
| A meeting note into German | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.0×took 5.5 s and 1.8 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 9.3×cost $0.0096 and $0.0010 |
| Idioms into natural Japanese | Both passed | Closetook 3.6 s and 3.3 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.3×cost $0.0062 and $0.0019 |
| A lease clause into Brazilian Portuguese | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.2×took 11.4 s and 3.5 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 9.4×cost $0.0204 and $0.0022 |
| Customers in one country | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.2×took 2.5 s and 1.1 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 7.4×cost $0.0048 and $0.0007 |
| Count orders by status | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.0×took 2.5 s and 0.8 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 7.7×cost $0.0049 and $0.0006 |
| Revenue by category | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 3.5×took 4.3 s and 1.2 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 8.7×cost $0.0092 and $0.0011 |
| Every customer, even those without orders | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.4×took 5.0 s and 2.1 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 9.3×cost $0.0094 and $0.0010 |
| Monthly revenue with a running total | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 4.8×took 7.8 s and 1.6 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 11.2×cost $0.0176 and $0.0016 |
| A fact from one section | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.4×took 2.5 s and 1.1 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 5.9×cost $0.0054 and $0.0009 |
| Core hours and start times | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.3×took 2.6 s and 1.1 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 5.9×cost $0.0054 and $0.0009 |
| Two sections in one answer | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.2×took 2.9 s and 1.3 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 5.0×cost $0.0053 and $0.0011 |
| A later amendment changes the answer | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 4.0×took 7.7 s and 1.9 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 12.0×cost $0.0148 and $0.0012 |
| A question the handbook doesn't answer | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.8×took 3.4 s and 1.2 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 6.2×cost $0.0057 and $0.0009 |
| Pick the tool and work out the date | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.5×took 2.7 s and 1.1 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 4.9×cost $0.0041 and $0.0008 |
| Convert a currency | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.8×took 2.8 s and 1.0 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 4.9×cost $0.0041 and $0.0008 |
| Book a meeting from a sentence | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 5.9×took 7.2 s and 1.2 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 5.6×cost $0.0059 and $0.0010 |
| Search, but don't book | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.8×took 3.1 s and 1.1 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 4.9×cost $0.0046 and $0.0010 |
| Two calls with a unit conversion | Both passed | Claude Haiku 4.5, 2.8×took 3.4 s and 1.2 s | Claude Haiku 4.5, 6.1×cost $0.0064 and $0.0011 |
Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Haiku 4.5 in our test runs
Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 on the same prompts, job by job: how many replies passed their check.
Based on 100 of our test runs on , through OpenRouter with the app's own prompt and settings. Updated .
| Job | Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Coding | 5 of 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Writing | 4 of 5 | 4 of 5 |
| Math | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| Summarization | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| Data analysis | 5 of 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Customer support | 5 of 5 | 3 of 5 |
| Translation | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| SQL | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| RAG and answering from documents | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| Agents and tool use | 5 of 5 | 5 of 5 |
| All jobs | 49 of 50 · 1 message each · $0.0107 a reply | 43 of 50 · 1 message each · $0.0015 a reply |
The same prompts, sent to both through llmwise's own pipeline and checked the same way: five for each job. A bold count is the one that passed more. Messages: what each reply counted as on Pro. Cost: what OpenRouter charged us per reply, on average. Every prompt, and how it's scored.
Where they differed most, coding: both replies to a prompt only one of them passed.
A hard prompt: “Evaluate an arithmetic expression, no eval”, in full.
Claude Opus 5.5
Passed: All 15 tests passed.
```javascript function evaluate(expression) { if (typeof expression !== "string") { throw new Error("Expression must be a string"); } // Tokenizer const tokens = []; const numberRe = /\d+(?:\.\d+)?|\.\d+/y; let i = 0; while (i < expression.length) { const ch = expression[i]; if (/\s/.test(ch)) { i++; continue; } if ("+-*/^()".includes(ch)) { tokens.push({ type: ch }); i++; continue; } numberRe.lastIndex = i; const m = numberRe.exec(expression); if (m) { tokens.push({ type: "num", value: parseFloat(m[0]) }); i += m[0].length; continue; } throw new Error(`Unexpected character '${ch}' at position ${i}`); } // Recursive descent parser let pos = 0; const peek = () => tokens[pos]; const accept = (type) => { if (tokens[pos] && tokens[pos].type === type) { pos++; return true; } return false; }; // expr := term (('+' | '-') term)* function parseExpr() { let value = parseTerm(); for (;;) { if (accept("+")) value += parseTerm(); else if (accept("-")) value -= parseTerm(); else return value; } } // term := unary (('*' | '/') unary)* function parseTerm() { let value = parseUnary(); for (;;) { if (accept("*")) value *= parseUnary(); else if (accept("/")) value /= parseUnary(); else return value; } } // unary := '-' unary | power function parseUnary() { if (accept("-")) return -parseUnary(); return parsePower(); } // power := primary ('^' unary)? (right-associative; exponent may be negated) function parsePower() { const base = parsePrimary(); if (accept("^")) { const exponent = parseUnary(); return Math.pow(base, exponent); } return base; } // primary := number | '(' expr ')' function parsePrimary() { const tok = peek(); if (!tok) throw new Error("Unexpected end of expression"); if (tok.type === "num") { pos++; return tok.value; } if (accept("(")) { const value = parseExpr(); if (!accept(")")) throw new Error("Expected ')'"); return value; } throw new Error(`Unexpected token '${tok.type}'`); } if (tokens.length === 0) throw new Error("Empty expression"); const result = parseExpr(); if (pos !== tokens.length) { const tok = tokens[pos]; throw new Error( `Unexpected token '${tok.type === "num" ? tok.value : tok.type}'` ); } return result; } ```762 tokens in, 1,491 out (435 of them reasoning) · 15.8 s · $0.0336 · 1 message on Pro · answered by anthropic/claude-opus-5.5 via Claude Platform on AWS ·
Claude Haiku 4.5
Failed: 14 of 15 tests passed. First failure: evaluate("-2 ^ 2"): Expected values to be strictly deep-equal:
```javascript function evaluate(expression) { const tokens = tokenize(expression); const parser = new Parser(tokens); const result = parser.parseExpression(); if (parser.pos !== tokens.length) { throw new Error("Unexpected tokens after expression"); } return result; } function tokenize(expression) { const tokens = []; let i = 0; while (i < expression.length) { const ch = expression[i]; if (/\s/.test(ch)) { i++; continue; } if (/\d/.test(ch)) { let num = ''; while (i < expression.length && /[\d.]/.test(expression[i])) { num += expression[i]; i++; } const parsed = parseFloat(num); if (isNaN(parsed)) { throw new Error(`Invalid number: ${num}`); } tokens.push({ type: 'NUMBER', value: parsed }); continue; } if ('+-*/^()'.includes(ch)) { tokens.push({ type: ch, value: ch }); i++; continue; } throw new Error(`Unexpected character: ${ch}`); } return tokens; } class Parser { constructor(tokens) { this.tokens = tokens; this.pos = 0; } peek() { return this.tokens[this.pos]; } consume() { return this.tokens[this.pos++]; } parseExpression() { return this.parseAddSub(); } parseAddSub() { let left = this.parseMulDiv(); while (this.peek() && (this.peek().type === '+' || this.peek().type === '-')) { const op = this.consume().type; const right = this.parseMulDiv(); left = op === '+' ? left + right : left - right; } return left; } parseMulDiv() { let left = this.parsePower(); while (this.peek() && (this.peek().type === '*' || this.peek().type === '/')) { const op = this.consume().type; const right = this.parsePower(); left = op === '*' ? left * right : left / right; } return left; } parsePower() { let left = this.parseUnary(); if (this.peek() && this.peek().type === '^') { this.consume(); const right = this.parsePower(); left = Math.pow(left, right); } return left; } parseUnary() { if (this.peek() && this.peek().type === '-') { this.consume(); return -this.parseUnary(); } if (this.peek() && this.peek().type === '+') { this.consume(); return this.parseUnary(); } return this.parsePrimary(); } parsePrimary() { const token = this.peek(); if (!token) { throw new Error("Unexpected end of expression"); } if (token.type === 'NUMBER') { this.consume(); return token.value; } if (token.type === '(') { this.consume(); const result = this.parseExpression(); if (!this.peek() || this.peek().type !== ')') { throw new Error("Missing closing parenthesis"); } this.consume(); return result; } throw new Error(`Unexpected token: ${token.value}`); } } ```599 tokens in, 1,007 out · 7.6 s · $0.0056 · 1 message on Pro · answered by anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 via Amazon Bedrock ·
Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 on every plan
Whether the one-time free trial reaches each model, then each paid plan's messages on it.
| Plan | Price | Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0 | Not in the trial | In the one-time trial of 5 messages |
| Pro | $20 a month | Up to 62 a month | Up to 250 a month |
| Max | $50 a month | Up to 200 a month | Up to 800 a month |
| Ultra | $100 a month | Up to 450 a month | Up to 1,800 a month |
| Studio | $200 a month | Up to 1,000 a month | Up to 4,000 a month |
Prices don't include tax, which is added where it applies and shown before you pay. A paid plan's month is one allowance shared by every model, so each monthly count is the most you get if all of it goes to that model. It renews each billing period; everyday models refill daily at 00:00 UTC. Long chats count more per reply. How pricing works.
Every limit is published. Paid plans also have a monthly fair-use limit on AI cost: Pro $7.50, Max $20, Ultra $42, Studio $85. Using every message on your plan at typical sizes stays under it; very large messages and heavy research use it faster. Every limit, explained.
What differs
Messages on Pro
Claude Haiku 4.5 gets four times as many messages: up to 250 messages a month on Pro, against up to 62 messages a month for Claude Opus 5.5.
Context window
Claude Opus 5.5 takes up to 1M tokens; Claude Haiku 4.5 up to 200K tokens. A chat in llmwise holds up to 200k tokens, which fits in either, so the difference shows only through each maker's own API.
Images and PDFs
Both read images. Both take a PDF as the whole file, pages and all.
On Free
Claude Haiku 4.5 is in the free trial; Claude Opus 5.5 needs a paid plan.
Where messages go
Both are Claude models, served the same way. Sent to Anthropic directly.
Fact by fact
| Fact | Claude Opus 5.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Context window | 1M tokens | 200K tokens |
| Reads images | Yes | Yes |
| PDFs | Whole file | Whole file |
| Reasoning | Yes | No |
| API price (September 2026) | $4.00 in / $20.00 out per million tokens | $1.00 in / $5.00 out per million tokens |
| A typical message at API prices (4,000 tokens in, 700 out) | $0.0300 | $0.0075 |
| A $10 top-up adds | 50 messages | 200 messages |
| Where a message goes | Sent to Anthropic directly. | Sent to Anthropic directly. |
| If the provider fails | If Anthropic fails before the reply starts (an overload, a server error, a dropped connection), llmwise sends the same request to Claude Opus 5.5 through OpenRouter instead. | If Anthropic fails before the reply starts (an overload, a server error, a dropped connection), llmwise sends the same request to Claude Haiku 4.5 through OpenRouter instead. |
| Anthropic's safety fallback | Anthropic's safety system can pass a Claude Opus 5.5 message to another Claude model. The reply then names the model that answered and says what you were charged for. | Doesn't apply |
Claude Opus 5.5 or Claude Haiku 4.5?
From the facts above and our test runs: the rest is how their answers suit your work, which one chat can show you.
Pick Claude Haiku 4.5: more messages for the money, up to 250 messages a month on Pro; you can try it in the free trial.
Each model's page, the families, and other pairs
Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Haiku 4.5 is one pair of models. The page below covers the whole family.
- Claude Opus 5.5: price, limits and messages on every plan
- Claude Haiku 4.5: price, limits and messages on every plan
- Claude playground: try Claude online
- Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Opus 5.5
- Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Sonnet 5
- Claude Opus 5.5 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Claude Fable 5.1 vs Claude Haiku 4.5
- Claude Sonnet 5 vs Claude Haiku 4.5
- Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-6 Sol
- Every model-vs-model page
Both are made by the same company, so they're served the same way.
Questions
Is Claude Opus 5.5 or Claude Haiku 4.5 cheaper in llmwise?
Claude Haiku 4.5 gets four times as many messages: up to 250 messages a month on Pro, against up to 62 messages a month for Claude Opus 5.5. Every paid plan's monthly allowance is shared by all models, so each count is the most you get if it all goes to that model.
Can I try Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 for free?
Claude Haiku 4.5 is, in the free trial of 5 messages; Claude Opus 5.5 needs a paid plan.
Which has the bigger context window, Claude Opus 5.5 or Claude Haiku 4.5?
Claude Opus 5.5: 1M tokens, against 200K tokens. A chat in llmwise holds up to 200k tokens, which fits in either, so the difference shows only through each maker's own API.
Can I use Claude Opus 5.5 and Claude Haiku 4.5 in the same chat?
Yes. Pick Claude Opus 5.5 for one message and Claude Haiku 4.5 for the next; the second sees the whole chat, including the first one's answer.
Which did better in your test runs, Claude Opus 5.5 or Claude Haiku 4.5?
On the same 50 prompts, run on September 27, 2026, Claude Opus 5.5 passed 49 and Claude Haiku 4.5 passed 43. The table on this page has each job, and every reply is published.
Claude, GPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Kimi, and GLM, in one chat.
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