Llava 7 B vs Claude Haiku 5.5: cost comparison
Prices updated 2026-10-27 · computed from live provider data
Short answer: Llava 7 B is cheaper on a
3:1 input/output blend — $0.125 per million tokens versus
$0.200, a 38% difference.
Claude Haiku 5.5 offers the larger context window at 1,000,000 tokens, against 4,096 for Llava 7 B.
Head to head
| Llava 7 B | Claude Haiku 5.5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Input, per 1M tokens | $0.100 | $0.100 |
| Output, per 1M tokens | $0.200 | $0.500 |
| Blended 3:1, per 1M | $0.125 | $0.200 |
| Context window | 4,096 | 1,000,000 |
| Vendor | llamagate | claude |
Monthly cost at real volumes
| Workload (input / output) | Llava 7 B | Claude Haiku 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| 1M in / 250K out | $0.150 | $0.225 |
| 10M in / 2.5M out | $1.50 | $2.25 |
| 100M in / 25M out | $15.00 | $22.50 |
Which should you pick?
Pick Claude Haiku 5.5 when you need the longer context window (1,000,000 vs 4,096 tokens). Pick Llava 7 B when price per token dominates your workload — high-volume classification, extraction, or batch summarisation.