Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and most efficient model, delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost and latency of larger Claude models. Matching Claude Sonnet 4’s performance...
Model details →Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
Qwen3.6-Max-Preview is a proprietary frontier model from Alibaba Cloud built on a sparse mixture-of-experts architecture with approximately 1 trillion total parameters. It is optimized for agentic coding, tool use, and...
Model details →Side-by-side comparison
| Capability | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window Maximum number of input tokens the model can attend to in a single request. | 200K | 262K | 🏆 Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview |
| Input price (per 1M) Cost per million input tokens billed by the provider. | $0.50 | $1.03 | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) |
| Output price (per 1M) Cost per million output tokens billed by the provider. | $2.50 | $6.16 | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) |
| Tool / function calling First-class support for emitting structured tool calls. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
| Vision input Accepts image inputs alongside text. | Yes | — | 🏆 Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) |
| Reasoning mode Internal chain-of-thought / extended-thinking support. | Yes | Yes | Tie |
Frequently asked questions
Is Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) better than Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) wins on 3 of 6 axes — pricing and capability skew in its favour for most workloads.
What's the price difference between Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) and Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview?
Input: $0.50 vs $1.03 per 1M tokens. Output: $2.50 vs $6.16 per 1M tokens.
What context windows do Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) and Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview support?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) supports up to 200K tokens. Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview supports up to 262K tokens.
Do both Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch) and Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview support tool calling?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 (batch): yes. Qwen: Qwen3.6 Max Preview: yes.
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