GPT-5.4 vs Claude 3 Haiku

1. Best Intelligence at Scale

• OpenAI positions GPT-5.4 as its frontier model for agentic, coding, and professional workflows.
• Built for complex professional work where stronger reasoning and higher answer quality matter.

2. Configurable Reasoning + Multimodal Input

• Supports configurable reasoning effort from none to xhigh, letting teams balance speed and depth.
• Accepts both text and image inputs while producing text output.

3. Massive Context for Long-Running Work

• 1.05M token context window supports very large codebases, documents, and multi-step workflows.
• Allows up to 128 k output tokens for long-form answers and larger generations.

4. Updated Knowledge & Broad Tool Support

• Knowledge cut-off of Aug 31 2025 keeps it current for newer frameworks and business context.
• Supports tools like web search, file search, code interpreter, hosted shell, computer use, and MCP in the Responses API.

1. Speed

• Fastest model in the Claude 3 family
• Near-instant responses for chat, support, and live tools

2. Efficiency

• Most affordable model
• Ideal for massive-scale applications and low-latency use cases

3. Practical Use Cases

• Customer support
• Translations
• Moderation
• Logistics, inventory systems
• Extracting insights from unstructured data

4. Vision Skills

• Handles charts, images, and diagrams quickly
• Useful for scanning large volumes of visual data