Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Claude Opus 4.7

Pick two tools from the same category to compare side-by-side.

	Claude Haiku 4.5 Fast, cheap small model for classification, routing, high-volume work.	Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic's deepest-reasoning model; planning, complex synthesis.
Category	model	model
Vendor type	commercial	commercial
Pricing	usage	usage
Strengths	+ Lowest cost in Claude family + Low latency suitable for real-time interactions + Strong instruction-following for its size	+ Deepest reasoning of the Claude family + Best for ambiguous, planning-heavy tasks
Tradeoffs	− Weaker on complex reasoning vs Sonnet/Opus − Lower context window than Sonnet	− Highest cost tier — not viable as default model − Higher latency than Sonnet / Haiku
Used in stacks	4	6