Fast and efficient with near-frontier intelligence.
Qwen's mid-tier commercial model for balanced performance.
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Based on the Capability Index, Claude Haiku 4.5 scores higher (75.3 vs 63.1). However, "better" depends on your use case — pricing, speed, context window, and specific capability needs all matter.
Qwen Plus has a lower blended cost. Claude Haiku 4.5: $1.00 input / $5.00 output. Qwen Plus: $0.26 input / $0.78 output.
Qwen Plus has a larger context window: Claude Haiku 4.5 supports 200K tokens vs Qwen Plus at 1M tokens.
Claude Haiku 4.5 supports vision/image input, but Qwen Plus does not.
Key differences: Claude Haiku 4.5 has a notably higher capability index (12.2 point gap); Qwen Plus is significantly cheaper; only Claude Haiku 4.5 supports vision input; only Claude Haiku 4.5 offers extended reasoning mode. Compare full specs on this page.
If cost is your priority, choose the cheaper option. If you need the highest intelligence for complex tasks, pick the higher-scoring model. For long documents or codebases, choose the larger context window. You can try both Claude Haiku 4.5 and Qwen Plus for free on idapt.app to see which performs better for your specific needs.