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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Codestral

Side-by-side API economics and benchmarks. Per-1M input and output rates, context window, and verified metrics.

Tale of the tape

Head-to-head specs pulled from each model profile.

Metric Claude Haiku 4.5 Codestral
Input cost / 1M $1.00 $0.30
Output cost / 1M $5.00 $0.90
Context window 200,000 tokens 128,000 tokens
MMLU score

Cost verdict

Enter monthly input and output volumes to see total cost savings.

Claude Haiku 4.5

Input: 1M × $1.00 = $1.00
Output: 1M × $5.00 = $5.00
Total
$6.00

Codestral

Input: 1M × $0.30 = $0.30
Output: 1M × $0.90 = $0.90
Total
$1.20

Total cost savings

$4.80

Codestral saves $4.80 per month vs the other model at this volume.

Model routing savings

Uses this page's verified rates. Claude Haiku 4.5 is the premium route (higher combined per-1M cost); Codestral handles routine traffic.

Premium model

Claude Haiku 4.5

$1.00 in · $5.00 out / 1M

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Economical model

Codestral

$0.30 in · $0.90 out / 1M

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All premium

Claude Haiku 4.5

$300.00

100% of input and output on the premium route

Routed stack

80%Codestral

Claude Haiku 4.5

$108.00

Routine slice
$48.00
Premium slice
$60.00

Monthly savings

$192.00

64% lower

Rates pulled from this page's model database entries (claude-haiku-4-5, codestral) — same per-1M input/output figures as Tale of the tape. Production routing needs quality gates and monitoring.

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