"All references to 3.5 Opus have vanished without a trace, and the price of 3.5 Haiku was increased the day it was released," he said. "Claude 3.5 Haiku is significantly more expensive than both Gemini 1.5 Flash and GPT-4o mini -the excellent low-cost models from Anthropic's competitors."
"I was expecting this to be a complete replacement for their existing Claude 3 Haiku model, in the same way that Claude 3.5 Sonnet eclipsed the existing Claude 3 Sonnet while maintaining the same pricing," Willison wrote on his blog. "Given that Anthropic claims that their new Haiku out-performs their older Claude 3 Opus, this price isn't disappointing, but it's a small surprise nonetheless."
"Claude 3.5 Haiku arrives with some trade-offs. While the model produces longer text outputs and contains more recent training data, it cannot analyze images like its predecessor."
"Is it good enough to justify the extra spend? It's going to be difficult to figure that out," Willison told Ars.
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