Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo vs ERNIE 4.5 Max: which model should you choose?
We compared Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo and ERNIE 4.5 Max on price, context window and 12 benchmarks. ERNIE 4.5 Max has the stronger average benchmark score; ERNIE 4.5 Max 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
ERNIE 4.5 Max
ERNIE 4.5 Max is a multimodal model from Baidu. It offers a 128,000-token context window, costs $14.41 per million input tokens and $53.71 per million output tokens, and averages 80.6 across the index's benchmark suite.
- Input
- $14.41 / 1M
- Output
- $53.71 / 1M
- Context
- 128,000
- Avg score
- 80.6
- Open weights
- No
Specification comparison
| Spec | Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo | ERNIE 4.5 Max | Edge |
|---|---|---|---|
| Input price / 1M | $14.37 | $14.41 | A |
| Output price / 1M | $54.76 | $53.71 | B |
| Context window | 200,000 | 128,000 | A |
| Max output | 32,768 | 65,536 | B |
| Average score | 80.0 | 80.6 | B |
| Arena Elo | 1434.5 | 1423.7 | A |
| Open weights | No | No | Tie |
Benchmark comparison
Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo wins 2, ERNIE 4.5 Max wins 9, and 1 benchmarks are tied. The table shows the modelled score for each model and the gap.
| Benchmark | Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo | ERNIE 4.5 Max | Gap | Winner |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MMLU-Pro | 80.6 | 80.8 | 0.2 | ERNIE 4.5 Max |
| GPQA Diamond | 75.1 | 76.4 | 1.3 | ERNIE 4.5 Max |
| SWE-bench Verified | 68.4 | 68.9 | 0.5 | ERNIE 4.5 Max |
| HumanEval | 87.0 | 87.7 | 0.7 | ERNIE 4.5 Max |
| MATH-500 | 83.7 | 84.2 | 0.5 | ERNIE 4.5 Max |
| AIME 2025 | 79.2 | 79.5 | 0.3 | ERNIE 4.5 Max |
| LiveCodeBench | 71.7 | 73.0 | 1.3 | ERNIE 4.5 Max |
| IFEval | 87.1 | 87.1 | 0.0 | Tie |
| TruthfulQA | 81.0 | 83.6 | 2.6 | ERNIE 4.5 Max |
| HellaSwag | 88.1 | 87.7 | 0.4 | Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo |
| MMMU | 77.7 | 78.1 | 0.4 | ERNIE 4.5 Max |
| Arena Elo | 1434.5 | 1423.7 | 10.8 | Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo |
Price analysis
On a blended 3:1 input-to-output basis, Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo costs about $24.47 per million tokens and ERNIE 4.5 Max costs about $24.23. ERNIE 4.5 Max is roughly 1% cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo. At high volume, that gap compounds quickly, so price should carry real weight unless the quality difference is decisive.
Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo has the larger context window at 200,000 tokens, compared with 128,000 for ERNIE 4.5 Max. That matters for long documents, large codebases and multi-step agent traces.
Verdict
Across 12 shared benchmarks, Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo wins 2, ERNIE 4.5 Max wins 9, and 1 are tied. On the index average, ERNIE 4.5 Max leads Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo by 0.6 points (80.6 versus 80.0).
The price picture favours ERNIE 4.5 Max. The context picture favours Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo. 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 ERNIE 4.5 Max for quality-sensitive work, and check whether its price holds at your expected volume before committing.
Choose Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo if
- You need the larger 200,000-token context window.
Choose ERNIE 4.5 Max 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 65,536-token output limit.
FAQ
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo better than ERNIE 4.5 Max?
On the index average, ERNIE 4.5 Max leads Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo by 0.6 points (80.6 versus 80.0). The better choice depends on price, context and your task. Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo wins 2 benchmarks, ERNIE 4.5 Max wins 9.
Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo or ERNIE 4.5 Max?
ERNIE 4.5 Max is cheaper on a blended 3:1 basis at about $24.23 per million tokens, versus $24.47 for Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo.
Which has the larger context window?
Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo has the larger context window at 200,000 tokens. ERNIE 4.5 Max has 128,000 tokens.
Are these models open weights?
Claude Haiku 4.5 Turbo is proprietary; ERNIE 4.5 Max is proprietary.
Which should I choose for production?
If you need a single default, start with ERNIE 4.5 Max for quality-sensitive work, and check whether its price holds at your expected volume before committing.