Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) API Provider Benchmarking & Analysis
This analysis is intended to support you in choosing the best API provider of Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) for your use-case.
Fastest
Amazon
Google Vertex
Azure
AnthropicOutput speed
Total 4 providers
Lowest Latency
Google VertexAmazonAzureAnthropicTime to first answer token
Total 4 providers
Lowest Price
AmazonGoogle VertexAnthropicAzureBlended price (per 1M tokens)
Total 4 providers
Claude 4.5 Haiku is available through 4 API providers, each offering different performance characteristics and pricing. Below is a comparison of the key metrics across providers.
- For output speed, the top providers are Amazon (112.6 t/s), Google Vertex (106.5 t/s), and Azure (94.9 t/s).
- For latency, Google Vertex (15.18s), Amazon (16.09s), and Azure (18.39s) offer the lowest time to first answer token.
- For pricing, Amazon (0.77), Google Vertex (0.77), and Anthropic (0.77) offer the lowest blended prices per 1M tokens.
- Amazon provides an excellent balance of speed and cost-effectiveness. For the lowest latency, Google Vertex is the best choice.
Highlights
Update: Default performance benchmarking workload has updated to 10k input tokens to better reflect production use cases. You can still select different workloads above.
Pricing
Pricing: Cache Hit, Input, and Output
Pricing: Blended Price
Pricing: Cache Discount
Output Speed vs. Price
Speed
Measured by Output Speed (tokens per second)
Output Speed: Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning)
Latency vs. Output Speed
Latency
Measured by Time (seconds) to First Token
Time to First Answer Token
End-to-End Response Time
Seconds to output 500 tokens, calculated based on time to first token, 'thinking' time for reasoning models, and output speed
End-to-End Response Time
Key Comparison Metrics & API Features
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) providers
Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) is available through 4 API providers: Amazon, Google Vertex, Anthropic, and Azure. Each provider offers different performance characteristics and pricing.
Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) is currently available through 4 API providers that we benchmark and track.
The fastest providers for Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) by output speed are Amazon (112.6 t/s), Google Vertex (106.5 t/s), and Azure (94.9 t/s). Output speed measures how quickly tokens are generated after the model starts responding.
The providers with the lowest time to first answer token for Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) are Google Vertex (15.18s), Amazon (16.09s), and Azure (18.39s). Lower latency means faster initial response time.
The most affordable providers for Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) by blended price are Amazon ($0.77 per 1M tokens), Google Vertex ($0.77 per 1M tokens), and Anthropic ($0.77 per 1M tokens). Blended price uses a 7:2:1 cache hit/input/output token ratio.
The providers with the lowest input token pricing for Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) are Amazon ($1.00 per 1M input tokens), Google Vertex ($1.00 per 1M input tokens), and Anthropic ($1.00 per 1M input tokens).
The providers with the lowest output token pricing for Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) are Amazon ($5.00 per 1M output tokens), Google Vertex ($5.00 per 1M output tokens), and Anthropic ($5.00 per 1M output tokens).
2 of 4 providers support JSON mode for Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning): Google Vertex and Anthropic.
All 4 providers of Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) support function calling (tool use).
The best provider for Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning) depends on your priorities: Amazon offers the highest output speed, Google Vertex has the lowest latency, and Amazon provides the most competitive pricing.
When choosing a provider for Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning), consider: output speed (for throughput-intensive tasks), latency (for interactive applications requiring quick first responses), pricing (for cost-sensitive workloads), and API features like JSON mode or function calling.
Yes, provider performance can vary over time due to infrastructure changes, load balancing, and updates. We continuously benchmark all providers and display historical performance trends in the "Over Time" charts.
For information about Claude 4.5 Haiku (Reasoning)'s intelligence, capabilities, modalities, and how it compares to other models, see the model overview page. View model overview