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Claude Haiku 3
by Anthropic
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RANKED #109 OF 316 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #144 OF 493 RANKED · VIBE SCORE 5.6 · 4,444 VOICES ·
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A lightweight assistant made for everyday writing tasks and coding help.
HAPPY7.5
64 mentions
SAD7.5
93 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 134 voices in this window
HOLDING UP
Recent vibe is steady. No clear fade in the crowd.
HOW TO USE IT
Closed model. Anthropic hosts it, so you use it through an app or an API.
PREFER OPEN SOURCE? THE CROWD HAS PICKS
Claude Haiku 3 is closed, so you rent it. These open-weight models can genuinely stand in for it. Download once, own forever.
- OPEN WEIGHTS7.4
Qwen3.8 FlashAlibabaFast and capable multimodal flash model for daily tasks and code.⚡ FAST💸 COST EFFICIENT💻 STRONG AT CODE8.2k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.2
DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision ExpDeepSeekStrong vision-language processing and high responsiveness at low cost.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💸 COST EFFICIENT⚡ FAST5.5k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS6.8Ling 3.0 Flash VLinclusionAILightweight and rapid vision-language model for quick everyday lookups.⚡ FAST🪶 RUNS ON LESS💸 COST EFFICIENT5.7k VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Users find Claude Haiku 3 to be a great value for coding and writing assistance. However, some complain about sluggish performance, occasional made-up facts, lecture-heavy refusals, and service errors.
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PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (44 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (14 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (6 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (15 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (12 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (10 mentions)
- It can feel slow (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
44 thumbs up · 11 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
14 thumbs up · 7 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
7 thumbs up · 12 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightMIXED FEELINGS
8 thumbs up · 10 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 15 thumbs down
- WritingPEOPLE LOVE THIS
6 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- SpeedMIXED FEELINGS
2 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
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- REDDIT · 2024-10-22 · 1076 UPVOTESAnthropic blog: "Claude suddenly took a break from our coding demo and began to peruse photos of Yellowstone"
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- REDDIT · 2025-04-11 · 702 UPVOTESYou can get ChatGPT to make extremely realistic images if you just prompt it for unremarkable amateur iPhone photos, here are some examples
You can get ChatGPT to make extremely realistic images if you just prompt it for unremarkable amateur iPhone photos, here are some examples
- REDDIT · 2025-02-06 · 701 UPVOTESHow I Built an Open Source AI Tool to Find My Autoimmune Disease (After $100k and 30+ Hospital Visits) - Now Available for Anyone to Use
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- REDDIT · 2025-02-19 · 688 UPVOTESWhat happened... today???
What happened... today???
- REDDIT · 2024-06-24 · 673 UPVOTESClaude made me a 3D first-person shooter touchscreen game right in the chat interface. In the game, you shoot happy emojis at sad monsters…
Claude made me a 3D first-person shooter touchscreen game right in the chat interface. In the game, you shoot happy emojis at sad monsters to make them happy. By the way, the ridiculous idea for a game is Claude's.
- REDDIT · 2025-05-17 · 664 UPVOTESI verified DeepMind’s latest AlphaEvolve Matrix Multiplication breakthrough(using Claude as coder), 56 years of math progress!
I verified DeepMind’s latest AlphaEvolve Matrix Multiplication breakthrough(using Claude as coder), 56 years of math progress!
- HACKER NEWS · 2024-10-23 · 637 UPVOTESEverything I built with Claude Artifacts this week
Everything I built with Claude Artifacts this week
- REDDIT · 2025-04-22 · 617 UPVOTESAnthropic just analyzed 700,000 Claude conversations — and found its AI has a moral code of its own
Anthropic just analyzed 700,000 Claude conversations — and found its AI has a moral code of its own
- REDDIT · 2024-04-02 · 484 UPVOTESOMG Gemini just thrashed Claude
OMG Gemini just thrashed Claude