Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) vs Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Reasoning)
Which is better for the money: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) by Anthropic or Qwen3.5 122B A10B (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 (Medium)
Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Reasoning) vs Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium): 54.8% less intelligence, 1073.3% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 34.8% slower end-to-end.
| Metric | Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) | Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Reasoning) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 34.5 | 15.6 | −54.8% Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Re… is 54.8% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $56.36 | $661.29 | +1073.3% Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Re… is 12× more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 15.74s | 21.22s | +34.8% Qwen3.5 122B A10B (Re… is 34.8% slower |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $0.10 / $0.50 | $0.40 / $3.20 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text, Image |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (Medium) is on today's frontier: nothing is both smarter and cheaper.
- Qwen3.5 122B A10B (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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