Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku vs unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4

Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku comes out ahead on the data we track: 3 advantages and none for unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4.

Key numbers

SpecAnthropic: Claude 3 Haikuunsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4
ProviderAnthropicHugging Face
Input price (per 1M tokens)$0.25n/a
Output price (per 1M tokens)$1.25n/a
Blended price (3:1 input/output)$0.50n/a
Cheaper than … of all models we track53%n/a
Context window200K tokens (~300 pages)n/a
Larger context than … of all models38%n/a
Max output per response4K tokens (~3,100 words)n/a
Input typestext, imagetext
Output typestexttext
Free variantNoNo
Listed since2024-03-13n/a
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What it costs for real workloads

Monthly cost at list price for five common workloads. Token counts per unit are stated so you can scale them to your own traffic. A workload that does not fit a model's context window is marked rather than priced.

Workload (per month)Anthropic: Claude 3 Haikuunsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4Difference
Customer-support chatbot
50,000 conversations — each a 6-turn conversation (1,500 in / 400 out tokens)
$43.75n/a—
RAG search over documents
20,000 questions — each a question answered from ~8 retrieved passages (6,000 in / 500 out tokens)
$42.50n/a—
Coding / tool-using agent
2,000 tasks — each a multi-step task with tool calls and file context (60,000 in / 6,000 out tokens)
$45.00n/a—
Batch summarisation
10,000 documents — each a 6,000-word report summarised to a page (8,000 in / 600 out tokens)
$27.50n/a—
Long-document analysis
500 documents — each a 150-page contract or codebase read in one pass (100,000 in / 2,000 out tokens)
$13.75n/a—

Capabilities side by side

CapabilityAnthropic: Claude 3 Haikuunsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4What it lets you do
Tool / function calling✓ Yes—call your APIs and run agent loops
Structured output (JSON schema)——return JSON that validates against your schema
Reasoning / thinking mode——spend extra tokens thinking before answering hard problems
Image input✓ Yes—read screenshots, charts and scanned pages
Audio input——take speech or audio directly
File / PDF input——accept documents without your own parsing step
Image output——generate images, not just text
Built-in web search✓ Yes—answer from live web results
Seed (reproducible sampling)——repeat a generation for tests and evals
Log-probabilities——read token confidence for classification and scoring

From each model's published parameters and input/output types. “—” means not advertised, not proven absent.

Price history

Which should you choose?

Choose Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku if…

  • you need tool / function calling — to call your APIs and run agent loops; unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 does not advertise it
  • you need image input — to read screenshots, charts and scanned pages; unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 does not advertise it
  • you need built-in web search — to answer from live web results; unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 does not advertise it

Choose unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 if…

No advantage on the data we track — pick it for provider preference or output quality on your own prompts.

Frequently asked questions

Is Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku better than unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4?

Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku comes out ahead on the data we track: 3 advantages and none for unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4.

Do Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku and unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 support function calling and JSON output?

Tool calling — Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku: yes, unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4: not advertised. JSON-schema structured output — Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku: not advertised, unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4: not advertised.

Can Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku or unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 read images?

Only Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku accepts image input; unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 is text-only for input.

Is Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku or unsloth/Qwen3.8-27B-NVFP4 free to use?

No free variant is listed for either; both are pay-per-token.

About the two models

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