Claude 3 Haiku by Anthropic: a compact Claude 3 variant optimized for near-instant responses, 200K-token context window, 4K max output, knowledge cutoff Aug 2023.
Capabilities, design details, and architectural traits
Claude 3 Haiku is the compact member of Anthropic's Claude 3 family designed for near-instant responses and high efficiency. It trades top-end generative depth for lower latency and smaller runtime footprint while keeping the large context window used across the Claude 3 family.
| Trait | Documented detail that distinguishes Claude 3 Haiku |
|---|---|
| Identity within family | The smallest and fastest Claude 3 variant in Anthropic's Claude 3 lineup (Haiku vs Sonnet vs Opus). |
| Optimization target | Explicitly optimized for near-instant response speed and runtime efficiency. |
| Context capacity | Uses the Claude 3 family context window of up to 200,000 tokens/characters as documented for Haiku. |
| Output limit | Documented maximum single response output capped at 4,000 characters/tokens. |
| Primary positioning | Positioned for use cases needing low latency and lower compute cost compared with larger Claude 3 models. |
| Official availability | Offered through Anthropic channels and available on cloud marketplaces (for example, Amazon Bedrock) as the Haiku edition. |
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| Model Details | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| General Info | |||
| Provider | Anthropic | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Release Date | March 4, 2024 | July 24, 2026 | June 9, 2026 |
| Knowledge Cutoff | Aug 2023 | May 2026 | - |
| Context & Limits | |||
| Context Window | 200K | 1M Best Context Window | 1M Best Context Window |
| Pricing (per 1M tokens) | |||
| Input Pricing | $0.25 Best Input Pricing | $5 | $10 |
| Output Pricing | $1.25 Best Output Pricing | $25 | $50 |
| Modalities | |||
| Inputs | textimage | textimage | textimagefile |
| Outputs | text | text | text |
| Benchmarks (0-100) | |||
| Intelligence Index | 3.5 | 63.1 Best Intelligence Index | 62.1 |
| Coding Index | - | 78.0 Best Coding Index | 76.5 |
| Agentic Index | - | 59.2 Best Agentic Index | 56.6 |
Graduate-level reasoning and expert Q&A evaluation.
Extremely difficult logical reasoning and knowledge.
Logical reasoning over long context windows.
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