Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max) vs Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback)
Which is better for the money: Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max) by Anthropic or Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) by Anthropic? Intelligence, total benchmark cost, and end-to-end time from Artificial Analysis & other sources, snapshot 2026-10-26.
Clear winner
Verdict
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max)
Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) vs Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max): 2.5% less intelligence, 160.5% more cost to run the AA benchmark, and 95.6% faster end-to-end.
| Metric | Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max) | Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intelligence (higher is better) | 43.4 | 42.3 | −2.5% Claude Opus 5.5 (Low,… is 2.5% less intelligent |
| Total AA cost (lower is better) | $330.25 | $860.33 | +160.5% Claude Opus 5.5 (Low,… is 2.6× more expensive |
| End-to-end time (lower is better) | 347.67s | 15.14s | −95.6% Claude Opus 5.5 (Low,… is 95.6% faster |
| Price per 1M tokens (in / out) | $0.10 / $0.50 | $4.00 / $20.0 | |
| Input modalities | Text, Image | Text, Image |
Today's Pareto frontier
Against the frontier
- Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, MiMo-V2.6-Pro scores 46.30 for $207.
- Claude Opus 5.5 (Low, Default Fallback) is off the frontier: at the same or lower cost, GPT-6.1 Sol (Xhigh) scores 51.00 for $662.
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