Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) vs Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning)
Which is better for the money: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) by Anthropic or Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) by NVIDIA? 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 (Low)
Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) vs Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low): 22.4% less intelligence, 1638.1% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 38.5% slower end-to-end.
| Metric | Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) | Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 29.5 | 22.9 | −22.4% Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B… is 22.4% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $34.31 | $596.33 | +1638.1% Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B… is 17× more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 10.81s | 14.97s | +38.5% Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B… is 38.5% slower |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $0.10 / $0.50 | $0.60 / $2.70 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (Low) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6 Luna (Medium) scores 29.90 for $31.2.
- Nemotron 3 Ultra 550B A55B (Reasoning) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (High) scores 50.20 for $521.
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