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HAIKU5.5 AI
Empirical Performance Analysis

Haiku 5.5 Benchmark Matrix

Comprehensive comparative testing across coding, mathematical logic, reasoning accuracy, and generation velocity:

HumanEval / SWE-bench Lite

Coding & Software Engineering

★ Sonnet 5.5 (Absolute) / Haiku 5.5 (Per Dollar)
Haiku 5.5 88.4%
Sonnet 5.5 94.2%
GPT-4o-mini 82.0%
Gemini 2.5 Flash 84.1%

Haiku 5.5 comes remarkably close to Sonnet-tier coding accuracy while generating code 2x faster at 1/12th the price.

MMLU-Pro / GPQA Diamond

General Reasoning & Knowledge

★ Sonnet 5.5
Haiku 5.5 86.8%
Sonnet 5.5 92.5%
GPT-4o-mini 82.0%
Gemini 2.5 Flash 83.5%

Exceptional for multi-hop agent planning and query understanding, surpassing all previous generation 3.5 models.

MATH 500 / GSM8k

Mathematical Problem Solving

★ Sonnet 5.5
Haiku 5.5 91.2%
Sonnet 5.5 96.4%
GPT-4o-mini 87.5%
Gemini 2.5 Flash 88.2%

Near-perfect score on standard grade school math and high accuracy on competitive algebraic reasoning.

Output Tokens / Second (Average)

Inference Velocity (Speed)

★ Gemini 2.5 Flash / Haiku 5.5
Haiku 5.5 145 tok/s
Sonnet 5.5 72 tok/s
GPT-4o-mini 110 tok/s
Gemini 2.5 Flash 160 tok/s

Blistering speed makes Haiku 5.5 feel instantaneous in interactive autocomplete and voice agent applications.

Cold Start Latency (Median ms)

Time to First Token (TTFT)

★ Claude Haiku 5.5
Haiku 5.5 185 ms
Sonnet 5.5 420 ms
GPT-4o-mini 240 ms
Gemini 2.5 Flash 190 ms

Sub-200ms latency provides an ultra-snappy experience ideal for customer support and real-time streaming.