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Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning on IFEval: score, rank and what it means

Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning scores 89.9 on IFEval, placing it #73 of 600 models in the index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Score
89.9
0–100 scale
Rank
#73
of 600
Percentile
88th
within the index
Benchmark avg
78.6
all models
Leader
96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Pro
Gap to leader
6.2
points

Score distribution

The chart shows the top 10 models on IFEval, with Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning highlighted. Longer bars mean higher scores.

Claude Opus 4.5 Pro 96.1
Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning 95.9
GPT-5.2 Pro 95.6
GPT-5.2 Max 95.2
GPT-5.2 Reasoning 95.0
GPT-5.1 Pro 94.8
Gemini 3 Pro Max 94.7
GPT-5.1 Reasoning 94.6
Claude Opus 4.5 Max 94.5
o4 Reasoning 94.5

Top 10 leaderboard

#ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
1 Claude Opus 4.5 Pro Anthropic 200000 $20.98 89.1
2 Claude Opus 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 2000000 $20.91 88.2
3 GPT-5.2 Pro OpenAI 2000000 $21.32 89.6
4 GPT-5.2 Max OpenAI 1000000 $21.39 89.2
5 GPT-5.2 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $20.98 87.5
6 GPT-5.1 Pro OpenAI 200000 $19.77 87.8
7 Gemini 3 Pro Max Google DeepMind 2000000 $20.57 87.9
8 GPT-5.1 Reasoning OpenAI 400000 $20.27 88.3
9 Claude Opus 4.5 Max Anthropic 1000000 $20.90 87.8
10 o4 Reasoning OpenAI 1000000 $19.69 87.5

What this score means

On IFEval, Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning sits at #73 of 600. The leader, Claude Opus 4.5 Pro, scores 96.1, so the gap to the top is 6.2 points. The median model in this index scores 81.2, which puts Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning above the midpoint.

Anthropic models average 88.3 on this benchmark. Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning is 1.6 points above that provider line, so it is a stronger result than the average Anthropic model.

Among multimodal models, the average is 85.2. Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning is 4.7 points above that group. This is the more useful comparison if you are shortlisting within the same tier rather than across the whole index.

Read a 89.9 as a relative signal, not an absolute guarantee. Benchmark scores depend on prompt format, evaluation harness and contamination controls. Use this page to narrow the shortlist, then test the model on your own data.

Price context

At $15.11 per million input tokens, Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning is above the median input price of $4.00 across the 600 models scored on IFEval. The models immediately around it in the ranking are shown below so you can compare score and price together.

ModelProviderContextInput / 1MAvg score
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Reasoning Anthropic 128000 $16.30 83.7
Claude Haiku 4.5 Pro Anthropic 1000000 $15.07 80.8
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Max Anthropic 128000 $16.88 83.7
Claude Haiku 4.5 Max Anthropic 200000 $15.98 83.8
Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning Anthropic 128000 $15.11 81.4
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Vision Anthropic 128000 $16.99 83.8
Mistral Large 3 Mistral AI 128000 $5.41 81.7

Other benchmarks for Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning

BenchmarkScoreRankPercentileRelative
MMLU-Pro 83.4 96 84th
GPQA Diamond 74.6 150 75th
SWE-bench Verified 69.6 119 80th
HumanEval 88.7 61 90th
MATH-500 85.8 95 84th
AIME 2025 79.0 100 83th
LiveCodeBench 73.8 111 82th
TruthfulQA 82.5 116 81th
HellaSwag 90.9 64 89th
MMMU 76.7 117 81th
Arena Elo 1444.2 90 85th

FAQ

What score does Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning get on IFEval?

Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning scores 89.9 on IFEval in this index. The benchmark average is 78.6 and the top score is 96.1.

How does Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning rank on IFEval?

It ranks #73 of 600 models, in the 88th percentile. The leader is Claude Opus 4.5 Pro at 96.1.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning good at IFEval?

Yes, relative to the index: it is above the median and inside the top half of scores. The result should be read alongside its price and context window.

How is the IFEval score calculated?

IFEval is a instruction following benchmark. Scores in this index are modelled estimates on a 0–100 scale (or Elo for Arena), derived from capability tier and benchmark difficulty. They are not official leaderboard results.

What does Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning cost?

Claude Haiku 4.5 Reasoning costs $15.11 per million input tokens and $70.05 per million output tokens.

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