Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen Turbo: cost

For a typical support chatbot, Qwen Turbo is about 28.8× cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 ($16.68 vs $480 per month). Price is only one factor: test both on your own prompts before switching.

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Qwen Turbo: prices and limits
Claude Haiku 4.5Qwen Turbo
Input /1M$1.00$0.05
Output /1M$5.00$0.20
Output (thinking)—$0.50
Cached input /1M$0.10$0.01
Batch input /1M$0.50$0.025
Batch output /1M$2.50$0.10
Context window200,000131,072
Max input200,00098,304
Max output64,00016,384

Monthly cost by workload

Estimated monthly cost by workload (USD)
Scenario (per month)Claude Haiku 4.5Qwen Turbo
Customer support chatbot
5,000 req/day · 1,200 in · 400 out · cache 60%
$480$16.68
RAG over documents
2,000 req/day · 8,000 in · 600 out · cache 30%
$536$25.44
Coding agent
1,500 req/day · 25,000 in · 2,000 out · cache 80%
$793$38.25
Deep reasoning
800 req/day · 3,000 in · 6,000 out · cache 20%
$792$31.82
Batch processing
50,000 req/day · 1,500 in · 150 out · batch
$1,687$78.75