Which is cheaper, Claude 3.5 Haiku or Grok Code Fast 1?
As of August 25, 2026, Grok Code Fast 1 is 65% cheaper on blended LLM API pricing. Grok Code Fast 1 costs $0.20 per million input tokens and $1.50 per million output tokens ($1.70 blended 1M-in + 1M-out). Claude 3.5 Haiku costs $0.80 / $4.00 per million tokens ($4.80 blended). Sources: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing and https://docs.x.ai/docs/models. The cheapest LLM for your app still depends on how many output tokens you generate.
How much does Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Grok Code Fast 1 cost per million tokens?
Claude 3.5 Haiku Claude API pricing from Anthropic is $0.80 input and $4.00 output per million tokens via Anthropic. Grok Code Fast 1 xAI API pricing is $0.20 input and $1.50 output per million tokens via xAI. Use those four numbers, not ChatGPT Plus or Claude Pro subscription prices, when you are comparing APIs.
Which is better for coding, Claude 3.5 Haiku or Grok Code Fast 1?
Grok Code Fast 1 leads on SWE-bench Verified: Claude 3.5 Haiku at 40.6% vs Grok Code Fast 1 at 70.8%. SWE-bench measures real GitHub fixes; LiveCodeBench measures contest programming.
What is the context window for Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Grok Code Fast 1?
Claude 3.5 Haiku supports a 200K token context window, while Grok Code Fast 1 supports 256K tokens. Grok Code Fast 1 offers a larger context window. Filling a larger window bills more input tokens, so the cheaper-per-million model can still cost more on long documents.
Which model performs better on benchmarks, Claude 3.5 Haiku or Grok Code Fast 1?
Grok Code Fast 1 leads on 2 of 2 shared benchmarks versus Claude 3.5 Haiku's 0 wins. Check the comparison table for GPQA Diamond, SWE-bench, MMLU, HLE, and the other evals we track. Token price and benchmark score together are the usual LLM comparison, not either number alone.
Is Claude 3.5 Haiku or Grok Code Fast 1 better for production use?
Both Claude 3.5 Haiku and Grok Code Fast 1 are production API models. For cost-sensitive production traffic, Grok Code Fast 1 has better economics on the blended 1M-in + 1M-out scale. For maximum capability, weight the benchmark table for your domain. Many production stacks route cheap models for drafts and a frontier model for the hard turn, which is usually cheaper than sending everything to the expensive API.
Can I switch between Claude 3.5 Haiku and Grok Code Fast 1 in my app?
Yes. Call Claude 3.5 Haiku through Anthropic and Grok Code Fast 1 through xAI with separate API keys, or through a gateway that already wraps both. Keep prompts in tokens, not characters, when you estimate the invoice. AnotherWrapper templates can swap providers without rewriting auth and billing.
How accurate is this Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Grok Code Fast 1 pricing data?
List rates are the latest published Claude API pricing from Anthropic and xAI API pricing, quoted per million tokens. Official rate sheets: https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing and https://docs.x.ai/docs/models. Prompt caching, batch APIs, and committed-use discounts can change the invoice. Benchmark scores are from official publications and independent evals, updated as new numbers land.
What is the output token limit for Claude 3.5 Haiku and Grok Code Fast 1?
Claude 3.5 Haiku supports up to 200K output tokens per request, while Grok Code Fast 1 supports up to 10K output tokens. Output tokens are usually the expensive half of API pricing, so a higher max output cap is a capability, not a discount.
Which model has better throughput, Claude 3.5 Haiku or Grok Code Fast 1?
Claude 3.5 Haiku runs at approximately 104 tokens/second while Grok Code Fast 1 runs at 76.4 tokens/second. Claude 3.5 Haiku is faster in raw throughput. Throughput (tokens per second) and time-to-first-token are why two models with the same per-million-token price can still feel different in chat and agents.
How do I switch the models in this Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Grok Code Fast 1 comparison?
Use the model pickers at the top of this LLM comparison. Search any model in the index and the URL updates. Open Claude 3.5 Haiku or Grok Code Fast 1 from the sidebar for the single-model API pricing page, or go back to the LLM pricing table to sort by cheapest blended cost.
