Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-5 nano
Claude Haiku 4.5 vs GPT-5 nano: GPT-5 nano is cheaper by 95% on average. Claude Haiku 4.5 from Azure AI Foundry (200,000-token context, reasoning, tool calls) vs. GPT-5 nano from Azure OpenAI (272,000-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
0272,000
400
0128,000
5,000
01,000,000
At this workload, GPT-5 nano is 94% cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 — a savings of $714/month ($8,565/year).
Production recipe — Agent Command Center
strategy: cost-optimized
primary:
model: gpt-5-nano
provider: azure-openai
fallback:
model: claude-haiku-4-5
provider: azure-ai-foundry
shadow: { sample_rate: 0.05 } # mirror 5% of traffic to compare quality live| Claude Haiku 4.5 | GPT-5 nano | |
|---|---|---|
| Input price | $1.00/M | $0.0500/M |
| Output price | $5.00/M | $0.400/M |
| Context window | 200,000 | 272,000 |
| Max output | 64,000 | 128,000 |
| Function calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio input | — | — |
| Reasoning | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prompt caching | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pricing verified | May 12, 2026 | May 12, 2026 |
Benchmark comparison
Side-by-side public benchmark scores. Greener bar = winner.
Chatbot Arena ELOgeneral
Claude Haiku 4.5
1,310
GPT-5 nano
1,325
HumanEvalcode
Claude Haiku 4.5
89.5%
GPT-5 nano
86.3%
MMLU-Proreasoning
Claude Haiku 4.5
72.4%
GPT-5 nano
73.0%