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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen3.8 Flash

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Claude Haiku 4.5 costs 8.2× as much as Qwen3.8 Flash: $4.00 against $0.488 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Claude Haiku 4.5Qwen3.8 Flash
Input, per 1M tokens$1.00$0.15
Output, per 1M tokens$5.00$0.47
Context window200K1M
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$0.65$0.0947
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$4.00$0.488
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$10.50$1.44
Confidence signalnoyes
Tool callingyesyes
BANKING77, correct of 400301316

Which one should carry your traffic?

If Qwen3.8 Flash answers your requests as well as Claude Haiku 4.5, moving that traffic saves 88% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. Qwen3.8 Flash exposes a confidence signal, so Gimbix can let it answer first and hand unsure cases to Claude Haiku 4.5.

Claude Haiku 4.5 profile · Qwen3.8 Flash profile · Measure it on your traffic