Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07) vs Claude Opus 4.6

Name: Claude Opus 4.6
Brand: Azure AI Foundry
Price: 5.000000 USD

Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07) vs Claude Opus 4.6: Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07) is cheaper by 95% on average. Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07) from Anthropic (200,000-token context, tool calls) vs. Claude Opus 4.6 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls). Use Agent Command Center to A/B both in shadow mode and pick the winner per workload.

Side-by-side cost

Live workload comparison

Same workload run through both models. The cheaper one is highlighted.

Input tokens / request3,000

0200,000

Output tokens / request400

0128,000

Requests / day5,000

01,000,000

Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07)Cheaper

Anthropic

$190/mo

Input $0.250/M · Output $1.25/M

Claude Opus 4.6

Azure AI Foundry

$3,805/mo

Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M

At this workload, Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07) is 95% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6 — a savings of $3,614/month ($43,373/year).

Production recipe — Agent Command Center

strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: claude-3-haiku-20240307
  provider: anthropic
fallback:
  model: claude-opus-4-6
  provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live

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	Claude 3 Haiku (2024-03-07) Anthropic	Claude Opus 4.6 Azure AI Foundry
Input price	$0.250/M	$5.00/M
Output price	$1.25/M	$25.00/M
Context window	200,000	200,000
Max output	4,096	128,000
Function calling	✓	✓
Vision	✓	✓
Audio input	—	—
Reasoning	—	✓
Prompt caching	✓	✓
Structured output	✓	✓
Pricing verified	May 12, 2026	May 12, 2026