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Claude 4 Haiku vs GPT-4.1 Nano

Side-by-side comparison of pricing, capabilities, benchmarks, and use case fit.

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Claude 4 Haiku

Anthropic

Overall 83
fast
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GPT-4.1 Nano

OpenAI

Overall 70
fast
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Capability radar

Normalized coding, reasoning, writing, vision, context, and value

CodingReasoningWritingVisionContextValue
Claude 4 HaikuGPT-4.1 Nano
Comparison of Claude 4 Haiku vs GPT-4.1 Nano
MetricClaude 4 HaikuGPT-4.1 Nano
Input Price / 1M$0.80$0.10
Output Price / 1M$4.00$0.40
Combined Price / 1M$4.80$0.50
Context Window200,0001,047,576
Coding Score8375
Reasoning Score8472
Vision Score7860
AudioNoNo
StreamingYesYes
Function CallingYesYes
Latency Tierfastfast
Release Date5/22/20254/14/2025

Claude 4 Haiku — Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

  • Fast and cheap
  • Improved over 3.5 Haiku

Weaknesses

  • Not for hardest reasoning tasks

GPT-4.1 Nano — Strengths & Weaknesses

Strengths

  • Lowest OpenAI cost
  • 1M context

Weaknesses

  • Limited on complex generation

Use Case Verdicts

Coding

Claude 4 Haiku

Claude 4 Haiku scores 83 vs 75 on coding benchmarks.

General Chat

Claude 4 Haiku

Claude 4 Haiku leads on writing quality (86 vs 74).

Long Context

GPT-4.1 Nano

GPT-4.1 Nano offers 1M tokens vs 200K.

Cost Efficiency

GPT-4.1 Nano

GPT-4.1 Nano is cheaper at $0.50/M combined vs $4.80/M.

Enterprise Use

Claude 4 Haiku

Claude 4 Haiku combines strong reasoning, tooling, and context for enterprise workloads.

Agent Workflows

Claude 4 Haiku

Claude 4 Haiku is better suited for agentic workflows with tool use and coding capability.