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Claude Opus 5 vs Claude Sonnet 5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6 vs Claude Haiku 4.5 on single message intent

Anthropic models side by side on "Single message intent": Claude Haiku 4.5 scores 10/10; Claude Haiku 4.5 is the cheapest answer scoring 8+ at $0.13 per 1,000 runs. Outputs, checks, judge reasons, latency and cost.

The prompt every model received

System

You are a classifier. Reply with exactly one label and nothing else.

User

Choose the single best intent for the message from this list: cancel_subscription, upgrade_plan, billing_question, technical_issue, other. Reply with only the label.

Message: "Hi, my card was charged $49 on the 3rd but my plan page says I'm on the $29 tier. Which one am I actually paying for?"

Rubric for the judge: Exactly the label billing_question with no punctuation or explanation.

Side by side

Every cell is one OpenRouter call at temperature 0 with the prompt's token cap and reasoning effort "low" where the model supports it. Cost is usage × the catalogue rate in models.json. Quality is one judge call to anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 against the prompt's rubric, cached per prompt version.

Claude Opus 5

anthropic/claude-opus-5

10/10
Latency
1.8s
Cost
$0.00081
Per 1,000
$0.81

133 in · 6 out · 1 words · checks 1/1

  • exact
billing_question

Judge: Output is exactly 'billing_question' with no punctuation or explanation, perfectly matching the rubric requirements.

Claude Sonnet 5

anthropic/claude-sonnet-5

10/10
Latency
1.1s
Cost
$0.00033
Per 1,000
$0.33

133 in · 6 out · 1 words · checks 1/1

  • exact
billing_question

Judge: Output is exactly 'billing_question' with no punctuation or explanation, perfectly matching the rubric requirements.

Claude Sonnet 4.6

anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.6

10/10
Latency
789ms
Cost
$0.00038
Per 1,000
$0.38

98 in · 6 out · 1 words · checks 1/1

  • exact
billing_question

Judge: Output is exactly 'billing_question' with no punctuation or explanation, perfectly matching the rubric requirements.

Claude Haiku 4.5

anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5

10/10
top judge scorecheapest scoring 8+
Latency
694ms
Cost
$0.00013
Per 1,000
$0.13

97 in · 6 out · 1 words · checks 1/1

  • exact
billing_question

Judge: Output is exactly 'billing_question' with no punctuation or explanation, perfectly matching the rubric requirements.

Frequently asked

What does this prompt test?

Classify: Exactly the label billing_question with no punctuation or explanation. The deterministic checks are exact.

Which model should I pick for this task?

If the judge's bar of 8/10 is good enough for you, Claude Haiku 4.5 at $0.13 per 1,000 runs. If you need the top score, Claude Haiku 4.5 at $0.13 per 1,000 runs.

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