Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B
Wins 5 of 7 areas
Coding · Agents · Facts · Long documents · Following instructions
Wins 1 of 7 areas
Images and charts
Claude Haiku 4.5 is the stronger all-rounder.Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B is cheaper and better at images and charts.
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.
- CodingWriting and fixing software20Claude Haiku 4.52 of 2 tests
- FactsGetting facts right instead of making them up20Claude Haiku 4.52 of 2 tests
- AgentsCarrying out multi-step tasks on its own10Claude Haiku 4.51 of 1 test
- Long documentsFinding answers in very long texts10Claude Haiku 4.51 of 1 test
- Following instructionsDoing exactly what it is asked10Claude Haiku 4.51 of 1 test
- Images and chartsUnderstanding pictures, charts and video01Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B1 of 1 test
- ReasoningHard problems that need careful thinking11Even1 each · 1 tie
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 Omni 30B A3B costs 80% 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 Claude Haiku 4.5 pulls ahead
- Avoids making up answers it doesn't knowAA-Omniscience · Non-hallucination+61.7points ahead
- Hard command-line tasks in a real terminalTerminal-Bench Hard+23.5points ahead
- Code for real scientific research problemsSciCode+11.6points ahead
Where Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B pulls ahead
- Graduate-level biology, physics and chemistry questionsGPQA Diamond+5.4points ahead
- Harder college exam questions with imagesMMMU-Pro+1.6points 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.
CodingClaude Haiku 4.5
- Terminal-Bench HardClaude Haiku 4.5 by 23.527.33.8+23.5
- SciCodeClaude Haiku 4.5 by 11.642.230.6+11.6
ReasoningEven
- GPQA DiamondQwen3 Omni 30B A3B by 5.467.272.6+5.4
- Humanity's Last ExamClaude Haiku 4.5 by 2.910.47.5+2.9
- CritPttie00tie
FactsClaude Haiku 4.5
- AA-Omniscience · Non-hallucinationClaude Haiku 4.5 by 61.772.711+61.7
- AA-Omniscience · AccuracyClaude Haiku 4.5 by 3.41814.6+3.4
Images and chartsQwen3 Omni 30B A3B
- MMMU-ProQwen3 Omni 30B A3B by 1.658.660.2+1.6
Following instructionsClaude Haiku 4.5
- IFBenchClaude Haiku 4.5 by 10.954.343.4+10.9
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.
- AA-OmniscienceClaude Haiku 4.5 by 57-4.4-61.4+57
- τ²-Bench Telecom (AA run)Claude Haiku 4.5 by 33.454.721.3+33.4
- Artificial Analysis Coding IndexClaude Haiku 4.5 by 31.243.912.7+31.2
- AA IntelligenceClaude Haiku 4.5 by 9.116.97.8+9.1
- AA Agentic Indextie10.310.6tie
Questions people ask
Which is better, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B?
Claude Haiku 4.5 wins five of the seven areas where both have results: coding, agents, facts, long documents and following instructions. Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B wins images and charts, and costs 80% less. They are level on reasoning.
Which is better for coding?
Claude Haiku 4.5. It wins 2 of the 2 coding tests both models report; Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B wins none.
Which is cheaper?
Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1.00 per million input tokens and $5.00 per million output tokens; Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B costs $0.25 and $0.97. That makes Qwen3 Omni 30B A3B about 80% 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.