Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest vs Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash
Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-11-07.
| Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | ~anthropic | qwen |
| Quality Score | 100 | 100 |
| Input Price | $0.10/M | $0.19/M |
| Output Price | $0.50/M | $1.12/M |
| Context Window | 1,000,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output | 128,000 | 65,536 |
| Tool Calling | ✓ | ✓ |
| Structured Output | ✓ | ✓ |
| Reasoning Mode | ✓ | ✓ |
| Vision | ✓ | ✓ |
| Audio | - | - |
The verdict
For a sample job of 1 million input tokens and 250,000 output tokens, Claude Haiku Latest costs $0.23 and Qwen3.6 Flash costs $0.47, so Claude Haiku Latest is about 2.1 times cheaper for the same work.
Both read up to 1,000,000 tokens at once, roughly 1,500 pages of text.
Only Qwen3.6 Flash offers video input.
Across the 6 tasks where they differ, Claude Haiku Latest scores higher on 6 (Code Completion, Code Documentation, Regex Writing and others).
Pick Claude Haiku Latest if you need lower cost or the stronger all-round task scores; pick Qwen3.6 Flash if you need video input.
Costs use current list prices per million tokens; page counts assume about 0.75 words per token and 500 words per page.
Who wins by task?
| Task | Anthropic: Claude Haiku Latest | Qwen: Qwen3.6 Flash |
|---|---|---|
| Code Completion | 131 | 131 |
| Code Documentation | 131 | 131 |
| Regex Writing | 119 | 119 |
| JSON Extraction | 131 | 131 |
| Bulk Data Labeling | 129 | 129 |
| Short-Form Summarization | 123 | 123 |
Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →