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Haiku 5.5 low+guidance vs Opus 4.8

Haiku 5.5 low+guidance leads on quality, cost and agent time: 1.6 points higher, 24.6× cheaper and 1.9× faster.

24 tasksData from

Stet score

Haiku 5.5 low+guidanceclaude-code · low reasoningRank 10 of 15

42.495% range 33.2–51.71.6 points higher

Opus 4.8claude-code · medium reasoningRank 12 of 15

40.895% range 30.8–50.9

A directional read: their 95% score ranges overlap.

Cost / task

Haiku 5.5 low+guidance$0.2924.6× cheaper
Opus 4.8$7.05

Agent time / task

Haiku 5.5 low+guidance12.4 min1.9× faster
Opus 4.823.3 min

Quality

Head-to-head matchups

Haiku 5.5 low+guidance won8

Tied6

Opus 4.8 won10

Haiku 5.5 low+guidance’s win share 52%, 95% range 35–69%Ties are within judge noise.

Task by task

Haiku 5.5 low+guidance solved 0 tasks that Opus 4.8 didn’t, and Opus 4.8 solved 4 that Haiku 5.5 low+guidance didn’t. Both solved 9; neither solved 11.

Haiku 5.5 low+guidance only 0

Opus 4.8 only 4

  • stet-15439c21Passed tests
  • stet-commit-5d766ddeEquivalent to the merged fix
  • stet-6f84e978Passed tests
  • stet-commit-60a0e6c2Passed tests

A task counts as solved when its tests passed or a judge found the fix equivalent to the merged change, as in the leaderboard’s Solved column. Stet score also weighs code quality, so it can order the two differently.

All 24 compared tasks
Task by task
TaskHaiku 5.5 low+guidanceOpus 4.8Solved by
stet-3169aefaPassed testsPassed testsBoth
stet-89dfbc27Passed testsPassed testsBoth
stet-b28f4fe7Passed testsPassed testsBoth
stet-232b50baPassed testsPassed testsBoth
stet-5276aa3fPassed testsPassed testsBoth
stet-commit-bbbbae09Passed testsPassed testsBoth
stet-66762b4cPassed testsPassed testsBoth
stet-15439c21FailedPassed testsOpus 4.8 only
stet-commit-f0caded9Equivalent to the merged fixEquivalent to the merged fixBoth
stet-commit-5d766ddeFailedEquivalent to the merged fixOpus 4.8 only
stet-43493c52Passed testsPassed testsBoth
stet-6f84e978FailedPassed testsOpus 4.8 only
stet-commit-f8ae1177FailedFailedNeither
stet-2450ca2dFailedFailedNeither
stet-commit-342d0ac0FailedFailedNeither
stet-commit-60a0e6c2FailedPassed testsOpus 4.8 only
stet-commit-5e075641FailedFailedNeither
stet-commit-2826765eFailedFailedNeither
stet-commit-a8716b88FailedFailedNeither
stet-commit-30506f8eFailedFailedNeither
stet-commit-87814583FailedFailedNeither
stet-commit-d2ab0c25FailedFailedNeither
stet-commit-e41c2e2dFailedFailedNeither
stet-commit-e928166fFailedFailedNeither

Side by side

Side by side
MetricHaiku 5.5 low+guidanceOpus 4.8
Harnessclaude-codeclaude-code
Reasoning effortlowmedium
Rank10 of 1512 of 15
Stet score42.495% range 33.2–51.740.895% range 30.8–50.9
Solved9/248 passed, 1 judged equivalent13/2411 passed, 2 judged equivalent
Cost / task$0.29$7.05
Agent time / task12.4 min23.3 min

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About this data

  • 24 tasks, each a merged change replayed from the repo as it was just before the merge.
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  • Both setups come from the same leaderboard run of 15 setups: bmk_d4ba310fdf50db4ccb2092e3.

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