Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05): Claude Haiku 4.5 is cheaper by 80% on average. Claude Haiku 4.5 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) from Anthropic (1,000,000-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.

3,000
01,000,000
400
0128,000
5,000
01,000,000
Azure AI Foundry
$761/mo
Input $1.00/M · Output $5.00/M
Anthropic
$3,805/mo
Input $5.00/M · Output $25.00/M
At this workload, Claude Haiku 4.5 is 80% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05) — a savings of $3,044/month ($36,525/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
  model: claude-haiku-4-5
  provider: azure-ai-foundry
fallback:
  model: claude-opus-4-6-20260205
  provider: anthropic
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 }   # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live
Claude Haiku 4.5 Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
Input price $1.00/M $5.00/M
Output price $5.00/M $25.00/M
Context window 200,000 1,000,000
Max output 64,000 128,000
Function calling
Vision
Audio input
Reasoning
Prompt caching
Structured output
Pricing verified May 12, 2026 May 12, 2026
Cheaper option
~80% cheaper than Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
Larger context
1,000,000 tokens
More capabilities
5 of 6 capability flags advertised

Benchmark comparison

Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.

Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude Haiku 4.5
1,310
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
1,498
HumanEvalcode
Claude Haiku 4.5
89.5%
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
BFCL v3agent
Claude Haiku 4.5
79.3%
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
MMLU-Proreasoning
Claude Haiku 4.5
72.4%
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
GPQA Diamondreasoning
Claude Haiku 4.5
55.2%
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)
SWE-bench Verifiedagent
Claude Haiku 4.5
52.0%
Claude Opus 4.6 (2026-02-05)