# Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.8

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Haiku 4.5 leads Claude Opus 4.8 in 0 of 7 shared categories.

Claude Haiku 4.5: $2.0000000000000004 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Opus 4.8: $10 per 1M blended tokens.

Claude Haiku 4.5: closed weights.

Claude Opus 4.8: closed weights.

- Which to pick, General LLM: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in General LLM at #20 against #104.
- Which to pick, Reasoning: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Reasoning at #10 against #91.
- Which to pick, Science: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Science at #27 against #109.
- Which to pick, Coding › Web dev: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Coding › Web dev at #33 against #92.
- Which to pick, Long context: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Long context at #10 against #84.
- Which to pick, Factuality: As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Factuality at #21 against #97.
- Which to pick, Abstraction (ARC): As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 leads Claude Haiku 4.5 in Abstraction (ARC) at #12 against #78.

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Haiku 4.5 is ranked #78 in Abstraction (ARC) (since Oct 15, 2026; sources ARC-AGI; methodology v1.0).

As of Oct 15, 2026, Claude Opus 4.8 is a former state-of-the-art holder in Coding › Web dev (since Jun 5, 2026; sources LMArena WebDev; methodology v1.0).