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Best cheaper alternatives to Claude 4.5 Haiku

Looking for a cheaper or smarter replacement for Claude 4.5 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 200K context
Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash-8B97% CHEAPER
Google
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Google
Gemini 1.5 Flash93% CHEAPER
Google
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Google
Gemini 2.0 Flash91% CHEAPER
Google
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OpenAI
GPT-5 Mini84% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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OpenAI
GPT-5.284% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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OpenAI
GPT 4.1 Mini84% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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OpenAI
GPT 4.1 Nano84% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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Google
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite Preview72% CHEAPER
Google
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Google
Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite72% CHEAPER
Google
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OpenAI
GPT-5.4 Nano77% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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OpenAI
GPT-4o84% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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OpenAI
GPT-4o Mini84% CHEAPER
OpenAI
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Groq
Llama 3.1 8B Instant 128k97% CHEAPER
Groq
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Mistral AI
Ministral 3 3B95% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
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Together AI
Qwen3.5 9B94% CHEAPER
Together AI
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Fireworks AI
OpenAI GPT OSS 20B94% CHEAPER
Fireworks AI
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Groq
GPT OSS 20B 128k93% CHEAPER
Groq
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Mistral AI
Ministral 3 8B93% CHEAPER
Mistral AI
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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.