Alternatives
Best cheaper alternatives to Claude 3 Haiku
Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Claude 3 Haiku by Anthropic? We compared every LLM model with verifiable pricing on real input/output cost, context window, intelligence and modalities. 18 options are meaningfully cheaper.
Category: LLM Intelligence 33 200K context
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B87% CHEAPER
Google
Better valueSmarter (36 vs 33)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.0375 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 36 1.0M ctx 98%
Gemini 1.5 Flash74% CHEAPER
Google
Better valueSmarter (48 vs 33)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.075 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 48 1.0M ctx 98%
Gemini 2.0 Flash65% CHEAPER
Google
Better valueSmarter (56 vs 33)Larger contextMore modalitiesSame category
$0.1 in · $0.4 out / 1M Tokens 56 1.0M ctx 80%
DeepSeek-V3 (Chat)76% CHEAPER
DeepSeek
Better valueSmarter (63 vs 33)Same category
$0.07 in · $0.27 out / 1M Tokens 63 64K ctx 80%
Qwen Turbo83% CHEAPER
Alibaba Cloud
Better valueSmarter (45 vs 33)Same category
$0.05 in · $0.2 out / 1M Tokens 45 131K ctx 78%
Llama 3.2 11B Vision89% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueSmarter (38 vs 33)Same category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 38 128K ctx 85%
DeepSeek-R1 (Reasoner)51% CHEAPER
DeepSeek
Better valueSmarter (73 vs 33)Same category
$0.14 in · $0.55 out / 1M Tokens 73 64K ctx 80%
Llama 3.1 8B89% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueSame category
$0.055 in · $0.055 out / 1M Tokens 34 128K ctx 85%
o337% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Better valueSmarter (78 vs 33)Same category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 78 200K ctx 82%
Mistral Small70% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Better valueSmarter (44 vs 33)Same category
$0.1 in · $0.3 out / 1M Tokens 44 128K ctx 95%
o137% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Better valueSmarter (71 vs 33)Same category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 71 200K ctx 82%
Llama 3.2 90B Vision54% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueSmarter (54 vs 33)Same category
$0.23 in · $0.23 out / 1M Tokens 54 128K ctx 85%
Ministral 3 8B70% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
Better valueSmarter (37 vs 33)Same category
$0.15 in · $0.15 out / 1M Tokens 37 128K ctx 98%
o4 Mini37% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Better valueSmarter (70 vs 33)Same category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 70 200K ctx 82%
Llama 3.1 70B54% CHEAPER
Meta
Better valueSmarter (52 vs 33)Same category
$0.23 in · $0.23 out / 1M Tokens 52 128K ctx 85%
GPT-4o37% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Better valueSmarter (60 vs 33)More modalitiesSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25 out / 1M Tokens 60 128K ctx 82%
GPT 4.1 Mini37% CHEAPER
OpenAI
Better valueSmarter (53 vs 33)Larger contextSame category
$0.000263 in · $1.25512 out / 1M Tokens 53 1.0M ctx 82%
Imagen 492% CHEAPER
Google
Same category
$0.04 in · $0.04 out / image 80%
Costs are normalised to a blended 1M-token workload (or per-unit price for non-token models) using each model's latest verified pricing. Models with pricing under review are excluded from recommendations.