Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo vs Command A Max: which model should you choose?
We compared Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo and Command A Max on price, context window and 12 benchmarks. Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo has the stronger average benchmark score; Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo is cheaper on a blended 3:1 basis.
Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo
Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo is a multimodal model from Anthropic. It offers a 200,000-token context window, costs $14.37 per million input tokens and $54.76 per million output tokens, and averages 80.0 across the index's benchmark suite.
- Input
- $14.37 / 1M
- Output
- $54.76 / 1M
- Context
- 200,000
- Avg score
- 80.0
- Open weights
- No
Command A Max
Command A Max is a multimodal model from Cohere. It offers a 400,000-token context window, costs $14.28 per million input tokens and $70.22 per million output tokens, and averages 79.9 across the index's benchmark suite.
- Input
- $14.28 / 1M
- Output
- $70.22 / 1M
- Context
- 400,000
- Avg score
- 79.9
- Open weights
- No
Specification comparison
| Spec | Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo | Command A Max | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $14.37 | $14.28 | B |
| Output price / 1M | $54.76 | $70.22 | A |
| Context window | 200,000 | 400,000 | B |
| Max output | 32,768 | 8,192 | A |
| Average score | 80.0 | 79.9 | A |
| Arena Elo | 1434.5 | 1443.7 | B |
| Open weights | No | No | Tie |
Benchmark comparison
Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo wins 6, Command A Max wins 6, and 0 benchmarks are tied. The table shows the modelled score for each model and the gap.
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo | Command A Max | Gap | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 80.6 | 84.3 | 3.7 | Command A Max |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.1 | 74.5 | 0.6 | Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo |
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.4 | 69.7 | 1.3 | Command A Max |
| HumanEval | 87.0 | 83.4 | 3.6 | Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo |
| MATH-500 | 83.7 | 85.7 | 2.0 | Command A Max |
| AIME 2025 | 79.2 | 77.2 | 2.0 | Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo |
| LiveCodeBench | 71.7 | 73.1 | 1.4 | Command A Max |
| IFEval | 87.1 | 86.7 | 0.4 | Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo |
| TruthfulQA | 81.0 | 82.2 | 1.2 | Command A Max |
| HellaSwag | 88.1 | 87.1 | 1.0 | Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo |
| MMMU | 77.7 | 74.6 | 3.1 | Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo |
| Arena Elo | 1434.5 | 1443.7 | 9.2 | Command A Max |
Price analysis
On a blended 3:1 input-to-output basis, Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo costs about $24.47 per million tokens and Command A Max costs about $28.27. Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo is roughly 13% cheaper than Command A Max. At high volume, that gap compounds quickly, so price should carry real weight unless the quality difference is decisive.
Command A Max has the larger context window at 400,000 tokens, compared with 200,000 for Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo. That matters for long documents, large codebases and multi-step agent traces.
Verdict
Across 12 shared benchmarks, Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo wins 6, Command A Max wins 6, and 0 are tied. On the index average, Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo leads Command A Max by 0.1 points (80.0 versus 79.9).
The price picture favours Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo. The context picture favours Command A Max. Those two dimensions often matter more than a few benchmark points once a model is good enough for the task.
If you need a single default, start with Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo for quality-sensitive work, and check whether its price holds at your expected volume before committing.
Choose Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo if
- You want the higher average benchmark score in this index.
- Unit cost matters and you want the cheaper blended price.
- You need the larger 32,768-token output limit.
Choose Command A Max if
- You need the larger 400,000-token context window.
FAQ
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo better than Command A Max?
On the index average, Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo leads Command A Max by 0.1 points (80.0 versus 79.9). The better choice depends on price, context and your task. Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo wins 6 benchmarks, Command A Max wins 6.
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo or Command A Max?
Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo is cheaper on a blended 3:1 basis at about $24.47 per million tokens, versus $28.27 for Command A Max.
Which has the larger context window?
Command A Max has the larger context window at 400,000 tokens. Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo has 200,000 tokens.
Are these models open weights?
Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo is proprietary; Command A Max is proprietary.
Which should I choose for production?
If you need a single default, start with Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo for quality-sensitive work, and check whether its price holds at your expected volume before committing.