Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8

Claude Haiku 4.5

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Claude Haiku 4.5 is a fast, affordable, and highly capable AI model, excelling at coding and agentic tasks. Its combination of speed and low cost makes it ideal for powering real-time applications like chatbots, high-volume free services, and specialized "sub-agents" for complex tasks in coding, finance, and research. It can also handle common business tasks like creating office documents and assisting with strategy and analysis.

Claude Opus 4.8

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Claude Opus 4.5 is Anthropic’s latest frontier reasoning model, optimized for complex engineering, agentic workflows, and long-horizon computer use. It features strong multimodal capabilities, improved resistance to prompt injection, and a new Verbosity parameter to control token efficiency. With advanced tool use, extended context, and multi-agent support, Opus 4.5 excels in autonomous research, debugging, planning, and spreadsheet/browser operations.