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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Llama-4-Scout-17b-16e-Instruct

Pricing, context window, capabilities, and release date — pulled from each provider's public docs. Both are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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 Claude Haiku 4.5
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
Llama-4-Scout-17b-16e-Instruct
meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct
ProviderAnthropicMeta
FamilyClaude 4Llama 4
Modalitytexttext
Context window200,000 tok131,000 tok
Max output8,192 tok4,096 tok
Released2026-04-132025-04-05
Input price$1.00 /1M$0.270 /1M
Output price$5.00 /1M$0.850 /1M
Cache read$0.100 /1M
Toolsyesyes
Streamingyesyes
Visionyesyes
JSON modeyesyes
Reasoningyes
Prompt cachingyes
Claude Haiku 4.5
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
Full spec →

Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers similar levels of coding performance at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed of larger models.

Strengths
  • Fastest Claude
  • Cheap enough for per-token workloads
  • Still supports tools + vision
Llama-4-Scout-17b-16e-Instruct
meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct
Full spec →

Meta's Llama 4 Scout is a 17 billion parameter model with 16 experts that is natively multimodal. These models leverage a mixture-of-experts architecture to offer industry-leading performance in text and image understanding.

Strengths
  • MoE (17B active / ~100B total)
  • Strong multi-lingual
  • Open-weight license
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, both models, one line different.

# pip install aigateway-py openai
# aigateway-py: sub-accounts, evals, replays, jobs, webhook verify.
# openai SDK: chat/embeddings/images/audio — drop-in compat per our SDK's own guidance.
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Try Claude Haiku 4.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Try Llama-4-Scout-17b-16e-Instruct — same client, same key
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="meta/llama-4-scout-17b-16e-instruct",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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