Claude 3 Haiku is Anthropic's fastest and most compact model for near-instant responsiveness. Quick and accurate targeted performance. See the launch announcement and benchmark results [here](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-3-haiku) …
Model details →Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku vs Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free)
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3-Coder-480B-A35B-Instruct is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) code generation model developed by the Qwen team. It is optimized for agentic coding tasks such as function calling, tool use, and long-context reasoning over repositories. The mo…
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku | Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 200K | 262K | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.25 | $0.00 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $1.25 | $0.00 | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | — | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | — | — | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku better than Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free)?
Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free)?
Input: $0.25 vs $0.00 per 1M tokens. Output: $1.25 vs $0.00 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) support?
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku supports up to 200K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) supports up to 262K tokens.
Do both Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku and Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free) support tool calling?
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku: yes. Qwen: Qwen3 Coder 480B A35B (free): yes.