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Claude Haiku 3
by Anthropic
CLOSEDHOSTEDSMALLWRITING HELPCODING HELPFAST ANSWERS
RANKED #114 OF 229 ASSISTANTS · OVERALL #190 OF 6,520 · VIBE SCORE 5.8 · 2,948 VOICES
A fast, lightweight assistant for everyday writing and coding tasks.
HAPPY7.6
24 mentions
SAD7.4
32 mentions
VIBE TRAJECTORY
26 weeks · 33 voices
AGING WELL
The crowd is warmer now than it was at the start.
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 WEIGHTS7.5
Qwen3.8 27BAlibabaPick for local multimodal reasoning, strong coding, and complete offline privacy.💻 STRONG AT CODE🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE6.3k VOICESMATCH★★★ - OPEN WEIGHTS7.5Dots3 NoteXiaohongshuPick for long context agentic workflows and rich multimodal reasoning.🏆 NEAR-PEER QUALITY💻 STRONG AT CODE💸 COST EFFICIENT2.6k VOICESMATCH★★★
- OPEN WEIGHTS6.7
Mistral SmallMistralPick for fast and lightweight local multimodal chat on modest consumer hardware.🔒 PRIVATE & OFFLINE🪶 RUNS ON LESS⚡ FAST929 VOICESMATCH★★★
WHAT THE INTERNET SAYS
Claude Haiku 3 is widely liked as an affordable, capable option for coding and clear writing. However, users are frustrated by occasional slowdowns, service limits, incorrect answers, and a tendency to lecture or refuse requests.
2391 POSTS · 557 COMMENTS · REDDIT · DEV.TO · LEMMY · GITHUB · DEV FORUMS · HACKER NEWS
PEOPLE LOVE
- Popular for coding help (39 mentions)
- People feel it is worth the money (8 mentions)
- Good at writing and wording things (5 mentions)
PEOPLE COMPLAIN ABOUT
- Refuses or lectures more than people like (12 mentions)
- Sometimes makes things up (9 mentions)
- Outages, errors, or limits get in the way (9 mentions)
- It can feel slow (2 mentions)
TOPIC BY TOPIC
- Help with codePEOPLE LOVE THIS
39 thumbs up · 10 thumbs down
- Getting facts rightMIXED FEELINGS
6 thumbs up · 9 thumbs down
- PriceMOSTLY POSITIVE
8 thumbs up · 6 thumbs down
- Working when you need itA SORE SPOT
4 thumbs up · 9 thumbs down
- Saying no too muchA SORE SPOT
0 thumbs up · 12 thumbs down
- WritingPEOPLE LOVE THIS
5 thumbs up · 0 thumbs down
- SpeedA SORE SPOT
1 thumbs up · 2 thumbs down
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- REDDIT · 2025-03-01 · 1627 UPVOTESClaude just beat Mt Moon
Claude just beat Mt Moon
- REDDIT · 2024-05-29 · 1585 UPVOTESHardly any of us are using AI tools like ChatGPT, study says – here’s why
Hardly any of us are using AI tools like ChatGPT, study says – here’s why
- REDDIT · 2025-05-11 · 1446 UPVOTES10 brutal lessons from 6 months of vibe coding and launching AI-startups
10 brutal lessons from 6 months of vibe coding and launching AI-startups
- REDDIT · 2024-10-22 · 1076 UPVOTESAnthropic blog: "Claude suddenly took a break from our coding demo and began to peruse photos of Yellowstone"
Anthropic blog: "Claude suddenly took a break from our coding demo and began to peruse photos of Yellowstone"
- 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
How I Built an Open Source AI Tool to Find My Autoimmune Disease (After $100k and 30+ Hospital Visits) - Now Available for Anyone to Use
- 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