Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Flint
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Claude Haiku 4.5 is meaningfully stronger at speed (98 vs 7 on our capability index).
- •Flint is open-weights (free to self-host); Claude Haiku 4.5 is paid API only.
Specs comparison
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | Flint | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Springboards |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | ✓200K | Not announced |
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.00 | ✓Not announced |
| Output / 1M tokens | $5.00 | Not announced |
| Release date | 2025-10 | 2026-04 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Flint |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.3% | - |
| GPQA | 64.6% | - |
| MMLU Pro | 80.0% | - |
| Novelty Bench | - | 7/10 |
| Intra-Model Similarity | - | 0.721 |
| NoveltyBench | - | 7.47 |
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 Flint if...
- →When exploring diverse creative directions
- →For early-stage ideation and concept generation
- →When variety and novelty are more important than accuracy