Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) vs Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning)
Which is better for the money: Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) by Anthropic or Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) by Alibaba? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-27.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 (High)
Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) vs Claude Haiku 5.5 (High): 51.3% less intelligence, 900.3% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 129.7% slower end-to-end.
| Metric | Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) | Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 37.8 | 18.4 | −51.3% Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Re… is 51.3% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $94.07 | $940.97 | +900.3% Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Re… is 10× more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 28.44s | 65.32s | +129.7% Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Re… is 129.7% slower |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $0.10 / $0.50 | $0.60 / $3.60 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text, Image |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (High) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.
- Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) scores 51.00 for $662.
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