Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Command R+
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Claude Haiku 4.5 is meaningfully stronger at multimodal (74 vs 5 on our capability index).
- •Claude Haiku 4.5 is 60% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Command R+ | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Cohere |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓200K | 128K tokens |
| Input / 1M tokens | ✓$1.00 | $2.50 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $5.00 | $10.00 |
| Release date | 2025-10 | 2024-08 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Command R+ |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.3% | - |
| GPQA | 64.6% | - |
| MMLU Pro | 80.0% | - |
| RAG (BEIR) | - | Top-5 |
| MMLU | - | ~75% |
Scores sourced from official provider release posts and independent benchmark aggregators.
Which should you choose?
Choose Claude Haiku 4.5 if...
- →You need high throughput and low latency at minimal cost
- →You are fanning out many parallel sub-agents or worker calls
- →You want solid coding/computer-use quality without Opus/Sonnet pricing
- →Your task fits comfortably within a 200K context window
Choose Command R+ if...
- →Your core use case is grounded RAG with citations
- →You need reliable multi-step tool/agent orchestration
- →You want an enterprise model available on Bedrock
- →You need multilingual responses across the 10 optimized languages