Head-to-Head API Cost Benchmark

Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI): API Price & Latency Comparison

On a standard B2B production workload (5,000 req/day), Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI) is 32.6% cheaper ($273.00/mo vs $405.00/mo), while Claude 3.5 Haiku leads in token generation speed (130 tok/s).

Side-by-Side Specification & Billing Matrix

Metric Claude 3.5 Haiku (Anthropic) Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI) (Together AI) Advantage
Standard Input / 1M Tokens $0.800 $0.800 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Cached Input / 1M Tokens $0.080 $0.400 Claude 3.5 Haiku
Output Generation / 1M Tokens $4.00 $0.80 Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI)
Intelligence / Benchmark Quality 1238 LMSYS Elo 1230 LMSYS Elo Claude 3.5 Haiku
Monthly Spend (5k req/day, 50% cache) $405.00 / mo $273.00 / mo Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI) (-32.6%)
Context Window 200,000 tokens 32,768 tokens Claude 3.5 Haiku
Output Speed (Throughput) 130 tokens/sec 115 tokens/sec Claude 3.5 Haiku
Batch API Discount -50% (Anthropic) -50% (Together AI) Anthropic
Primary Workload Fit Fast code sub-tasks, real-time moderation, heavy prompt-cached pipelines Automated unit test generation, SQL query authoring, IDE completion tools Workload Dependent
Deploy / Console Access Try Claude 3.5 Haiku → Try Qwen 2.5 Coder 32B (Together AI) → Open Full Simulator