Claude 3 Haiku vs Qwen3.5 Omni Flash
Wins 1 of 7 areas
Facts
Wins 6 of 7 areas
Coding · Agents · Reasoning · Images and charts · Long documents · Following instructions
Qwen3.5 Omni Flash is the stronger all-rounder.Claude 3 Haiku is better at facts.
Scores updated · 16 tests both models report · How we compare
Where each one wins
Tests won in each of the seven areas where both have results. Each piece is one test, so a longer bar means more evidence; grey means the two scored within a point of each other.
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking02Qwen3.5 Omni Flash2 of 3 tests · 1 tie
- CodingWriting and fixing software02Qwen3.5 Omni Flash2 of 2 tests
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own01Qwen3.5 Omni Flash1 of 1 test
- Images and chartsUnderstanding pictures, charts and video01Qwen3.5 Omni Flash1 of 1 test
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts01Qwen3.5 Omni Flash1 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked01Qwen3.5 Omni Flash1 of 1 test
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up20Claude 3 Haiku2 of 2 tests
Agents, images and charts, long documents and following instructions rest on a single test each.
What it costs
Prices per million tokens, roughly 750,000 words. The bars show the cost of a million tokens read plus a million written.
Qwen3.5 Omni Flash costs 40% less for the same work.
The biggest differences
The tests each model wins by the widest margin, up to three each. Scores are out of 100.
Where Qwen3.5 Omni Flash pulls ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+36.8points ahead
- Harder college exam questions with imagesMMMU-Pro+33.9points ahead
- Reasons across sets of long documentsAA-LCR+24.3points ahead
Where Claude 3 Haiku pulls ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+12.9points ahead
- Answers hard knowledge questions correctlyAA-Omniscience · Accuracy+2.9points ahead
Every test, side by side
All 16 tests both models report. The winning score is in its model's colour; marks a score checked independently.
CodingQwen3.5 Omni Flash
- Terminal-Bench HardQwen3.5 Omni Flash by 7.50.88.3+7.5
- SciCodeQwen3.5 Omni Flash by 6.918.625.5+6.9
ReasoningQwen3.5 Omni Flash
- GPQA DiamondQwen3.5 Omni Flash by 36.837.474.2+36.8
- Humanity's Last ExamQwen3.5 Omni Flash by 3.54.17.6+3.5
- CritPttie00tie
FactsClaude 3 Haiku
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationClaude 3 Haiku by 12.919.56.6+12.9
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyClaude 3 Haiku by 2.917.614.7+2.9
Images and chartsQwen3.5 Omni Flash
- MMMU-ProQwen3.5 Omni Flash by 33.930.864.7+33.9
Long documentsQwen3.5 Omni Flash
- AA-LCRQwen3.5 Omni Flash by 24.327.752+24.3
Following instructionsQwen3.5 Omni Flash
- IFBenchQwen3.5 Omni Flash by 1.936.138+1.9
Other results5 tests, not counted
Tests outside the eight areas. They are not counted above: several are summary scores built from other tests, or the same test under another name.
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Qwen3.5 Omni Flash by 63.421.184.5+63.4
- AA Agentic IndexQwen3.5 Omni Flash by 34.6741.6+34.6
- AA-OmniscienceClaude 3 Haiku by 16.5-48.6-65.1+16.5
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexQwen3.5 Omni Flash by 7.36.714+7.3
- AA IntelligenceQwen3.5 Omni Flash by 6.95.612.5+6.9
Questions people ask
Which is better, Claude 3 Haiku or Qwen3.5 Omni Flash?
Qwen3.5 Omni Flash wins six of the seven areas where both have results: coding, agents, reasoning, images and charts, long documents and following instructions. Claude 3 Haiku wins facts.
Which is better for coding?
Qwen3.5 Omni Flash. It wins 2 of the 2 coding tests both models report; Claude 3 Haiku wins none.
Which is cheaper?
Claude 3 Haiku costs $0.25 per million input tokens and $1.25 per million output tokens; Qwen3.5 Omni Flash costs $0.10 and $0.80. That makes Qwen3.5 Omni Flash about 40% cheaper for the same work.
How do you compare the two?
We use the 16 benchmark tests both models have published scores on. The verdict counts the 11 tests in the eight capability areas, and a gap under one point (ten on rating-style scales) counts as a tie. The other 5 are listed but not counted, because several are summary scores or repeat a test. Each score is the one shown on the model's own page.