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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs gpt-oss-20b

For a typical chat reply (2,000 tokens in, 400 out), Claude Haiku 4.5 costs 56× as much as gpt-oss-20b: $4.00 against $0.072 per 1,000 requests at list price on 2026-09-28.

Claude Haiku 4.5gpt-oss-20b
Input, per 1M tokens$1.00$0.018
Output, per 1M tokens$5.00$0.09
Context window200K131K
Classification or routing (600 tokens in, 10 out), per 1,000$0.65$0.0117
Chat reply (2,000 in, 400 out), per 1,000$4.00$0.072
Retrieval-augmented answer (8,000 in, 500 out), per 1,000$10.50$0.189
Confidence signalnoyes
Tool callingyesyes
BANKING77, correct of 400301313

Which one should carry your traffic?

If gpt-oss-20b answers your requests as well as Claude Haiku 4.5, moving that traffic saves 98% on chat-shaped requests. Averages cannot tell you whether it does for your requests. gpt-oss-20b exposes a confidence signal, so Gimbix can let it answer first and hand unsure cases to Claude Haiku 4.5.

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