Claude Haiku 4.5 vs North Mini Code
Pricing, benchmarks, and use case comparison
Quick take
- •Claude Haiku 4.5 is meaningfully stronger at multimodal (74 vs 5 on our capability index).
- •North Mini Code is meaningfully stronger at long context (82 vs 70).
- •North Mini Code is 100% cheaper on input tokens, which compounds fast on high-volume or agentic workloads.
Specs comparison
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | North Mini Code | |
|---|---|---|
| Provider | Anthropic | Cohere |
| Type | Closed source | Closed source |
| Context window | 200K | ✓256K tokens |
| Input / 1M tokens | $1.00 | ✓0 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $5.00 | 0 |
| Release date | 2025-10 | 2026-06 |
Benchmarks
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 | North Mini Code |
|---|---|---|
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.3% | - |
| GPQA | 64.6% | - |
| MMLU Pro | 80.0% | - |
| Artificial Analysis Coding Index | - | 33.4 |
| Throughput vs Devstral Small 2 | - | Up to 2.8x higher output throughput |
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 North Mini Code if...
- →You want a self-hostable, sovereign coding agent on modest hardware
- →You run agentic SWE workflows (repo edits, sub-agent orchestration, code review)
- →You need terminal/tool-driven multi-turn agents
- →You want high coding throughput at low compute cost