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Claude Haiku 4 vs Command R+: Pricing, Benchmarks & Verdict (2026)

Verdict

Claude Haiku 4 is significantly cheaper at $0.80/$4.00 per million tokens vs $2.50/$10.00. Claude Haiku 4 is stronger for coding with a coding ELO of 1195 vs 1160. Claude Haiku 4 is faster at 130 tokens/sec vs 65 tokens/sec. Claude Haiku 4 ranks higher overall with an Arena ELO of 1220 vs 1200. Claude Haiku 4 offers a larger 200K context window vs 128K.

Side-by-Side Comparison

FeatureClaude Haiku 4Command R+
ProviderAnthropicCohere
Input Price / 1M tokens$1.00$2.50
Output Price / 1M tokens$5.00$10.00
Context Window200K128K
Max Output Tokens8,1924,096
Arena ELO1,2201,200
Coding ELO1,1951,160
TTFT (ms)150350
Tokens/sec13065
MultimodalYesNo
JSON ModeYesYes
Function CallingYesYes
VisionYesNo
When to Use Claude Haiku 4

Choose Claude Haiku 4 when you need: very fast response times, 200k context window, affordable for anthropic quality, good instruction following. It excels at chatbots, classification, cost-sensitive, high-volume tasks. It is also the more cost-effective option between the two. Its 200K context window is larger, making it better for long-document processing.

Strengths:

  • Very fast response times
  • 200K context window
  • Affordable for Anthropic quality
  • Good instruction following

Best for:

chatbotsclassificationcost-sensitivehigh-volume
When to Use Command R+

Choose Command R+ when you need: best-in-class rag capabilities, excellent citation and grounding, strong multilingual support, enterprise-focused features. It excels at rag, enterprise, multilingual, search tasks.

Strengths:

  • Best-in-class RAG capabilities
  • Excellent citation and grounding
  • Strong multilingual support
  • Enterprise-focused features

Best for:

ragenterprisemultilingualsearch

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