Side-by-side technical and economic comparison between Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 and Cohere's Command R+ (08-2024).
• Command R+ (08-2024): Classified as a Legacy Reference model (Tracked Legacy (Predecessor to Command A)).
| Metric | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Command R+ (08-2024) | Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Provider Organization | Anthropic | Cohere | — |
| Standard Input / 1M | $1.00 | $2.50 | Claude Haiku 4.5 (60% lower) |
| Cached Input / 1M | $0.10 | $0.25 | Claude Haiku 4.5 lower |
| Output / 1M | $5.00 | $10.00 | Claude Haiku 4.5 lower |
| Context Window | 200k | 128k | Claude Haiku 4.5 (200k) |
| Max Generation Tokens | 8.2k | 4.1k | Claude Haiku 4.5 |
| Tokenizer Family | Anthropic Claude BPE (~65k vocabulary) | Cohere BPE (~256k vocabulary) | — |
Opt for Claude Haiku 4.5 when your engineering requirements prioritize Anthropic's ecosystem, specific tokenizer efficiencies (Calibrated Claude Tokenizer (±3%)), or when your expected prompt-to-completion ratios favor its $1/M input rate.
Opt for Command R+ (08-2024) when looking for Cohere's tooling integration, specific context window depth (128k tokens), or when output generation volume favors its $10/M rate.