Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) vs Granite 4.2 8B

Which is better for the money: Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) by Anthropic or Granite 4.2 8B by IBM? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-24.

Trade-off

AnthropicClaude Haiku 5.5 (High)On the frontier

Intelligence: 37.80
Total cost: $94.1

IBMGranite 4.2 8BOff the frontier

Intelligence: 11.10
Total cost: $53.1

Verdict

Depends on your budget

Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) scores 26.7 points higher (37.8 vs 11.1) but costs 1.8× as much to run the benchmark ($94.1 vs $53.1; both mid-range class). Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) when the extra intelligence is worth the premium, otherwise Granite 4.2 8B.

Metric	Claude Haiku 5.5 (High)	Granite 4.2 8B	Difference
Intelligence (higher is better)	37.8	11.1	−70.6% Granite 4.2 8B is 70.6% less intelligent
Total AA cost (lower is better)	$94.07	$53.07	−43.6% Granite 4.2 8B is 43.6% cheaper
End-to-end time (lower is better)	26.02s	39.25s	+50.8% Granite 4.2 8B is 50.8% slower
Price per 1M tokens (in / out)	$0.10 / $0.50	$0.06 / $0.25
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Granite 4.2 8B vs Claude Haiku 5.5 (High): 70.6% less intelligence, 43.6% less cost to run the AA benchmark, and 50.8% slower end-to-end.

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Today's Pareto frontier

Against the frontier

Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.
Granite 4.2 8B is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (High) scores 32.90 for $47.9.

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