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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Fara1.5 27B

Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) and Fara1.5 27B (Microsoft) compared on the ModelCap Index, API price, context window, provider availability, weight access and every public benchmark board they share. Figures are the same ones shown on the live rankings; nothing here is a hidden score.

Snapshot as of 17 August 2026

As of 17 August 2026, Claude Haiku 4.5 holds the stronger ModelCap Index position (#45 vs #48); and Fara1.5 27B ships open weights.

Which should you choose?

Choose Claude Haiku 4.5 if…

  • you want the stronger overall ModelCap Index position — #45 against #48 (52.3 vs 51.0 points).
  • you want provider choice — 4 listed API providers against 0.

Choose Fara1.5 27B if…

  • you want to self-host: Fara1.5 27B ships open weights while Claude Haiku 4.5 is api only.
  • you want the more recently listed model — Fara1.5 27B was listed 17 July 2026, Claude Haiku 4.5 15 October 2025.

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Fara1.5 27B: specs, pricing and context

Specification comparison of Claude Haiku 4.5 and Fara1.5 27B
FieldClaude Haiku 4.5AnthropicFara1.5 27BMicrosoft
ModelCap Index position#45#48
Index score52.351.0
EvidenceMeasuredInherited
Input price / 1M tokens$1.00Unlisted
Output price / 1M tokens$5.00Unlisted
Context window200K tokens— tokens
Max output tokens64K—
API providers listed40
Weight accessAPI onlyOpen weights
Input modalitiesText, Image, FileText, Image
First listed15 October 202517 July 2026
PublisherAnthropicMicrosoft

Evidence: 3 public benchmark observations across 3 boards · finetune · finetune. Prices are the lowest listed API offer per million tokens observed on the OpenRouter catalogue.

Benchmark scores: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Fara1.5 27B

Public benchmark boards where Claude Haiku 4.5 or Fara1.5 27B has a published result
BoardClaude Haiku 4.5Fara1.5 27BLeads
Arena codingArena (LMArena)14791475–1484—Only one result
ARC-AGI-2ARC Prize Foundation4.0%Thinking—Only one result

Scores are the sources' own published figures for each model's best evaluated configuration; ModelCap never re-runs a benchmark.

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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Fara1.5 27B: common questions

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 better than Fara1.5 27B?

Claude Haiku 4.5 ranks higher on the ModelCap Index as of 17 August 2026: #45 against #48. That is a capability ranking built from public benchmark evidence with published uncertainty; whether it is "better" for you also depends on price, context and where you can run it.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 cheaper than Fara1.5 27B?

At least one of the two has no listed API price on ModelCap right now, so no price comparison is made.

Which has the bigger context window, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Fara1.5 27B?

Both publish a 200K-token context window.

Which is better for coding, Claude Haiku 4.5 or Fara1.5 27B?

The two models do not share a coding benchmark board on ModelCap yet, so no head-to-head coding score is published; the ModelCap Index position is the closest overall signal.

Are Claude Haiku 4.5 and Fara1.5 27B open-weight models?

Claude Haiku 4.5: API only. Fara1.5 27B: Open weights. Open weights mean the checkpoint can be downloaded and self-hosted under its licence; API-only models are available solely through hosted endpoints.

Where can I run Claude Haiku 4.5 and Fara1.5 27B?

ModelCap currently lists 4 API providers for Claude Haiku 4.5 and 0 for Fara1.5 27B, from the OpenRouter catalogue snapshot the site serves; each model page lists the providers and their prices.

How current is this Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Fara1.5 27B comparison?

Every figure comes from the sealed ModelCap dataset published 17 August 2026; the page re-renders within a minute of each data refresh, and the ModelCap Index positions are the same ones shown on the live rankings.

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