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System Card: Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic, October 2025)

high confidence · updated 2026-07-26

Anthropic's system card for Claude Haiku 4.5, a hybrid reasoning model in the small, fast class. Reports large safety improvements over Haiku 3.5 and a safety profile comparing favorably with other Anthropic models, deployed under the AI Safety Level 2 Standard. Covers safeguards, agentic safety including prompt injection, alignment and welfare assessment, reward hacking, reasoning faithfulness, sabotage capabilities, and CBRN evaluations.

The system card for Claude Haiku 4.5, "a new hybrid reasoning large language model from Anthropic in our small, fast model class," with "a combination of speed and intelligence that make it particularly effective at coding tasks and computer use."

Scope of evaluation

The card enumerates seven assessment areas: "the model's safeguards; the model's safety profile when working autonomously in 'agentic' roles; the model's broad alignment; the model's own potential welfare; the model's tendency to 'reward hack' by finding shortcuts to complete tests; and the model's potential to be misused to produce dangerous weapons."

Model welfare appearing as a standing evaluation category alongside capability and misuse is a distinguishing feature of Anthropic's cards. See Model Welfare.

Determination

"Overall, Claude Haiku 4.5 shows large safety improvements compared to its predecessor, Claude Haiku 3.5. The new model's safety profile also compares favorably with other extant Anthropic models. Informed by the testing described here, we have deployed Claude Haiku 4.5 under the AI Safety Level 2 Standard as described in our Responsible Scaling Policy."

Structure

The card's sections indicate the evaluation architecture in use at this point in the RSP's development:

AreaContents
Safeguards and harmlessnessSingle-turn violative and benign request evaluations; ambiguous context; multi-turn testing; child safety; political bias and the Bias Benchmark for Question Answering
Agentic safetyMalicious use in agentic coding and Claude Code; prompt injection via the Gray Swan Agent Red Teaming benchmark and internal evaluations
Alignment and welfareAutomated behavioral audits, including assessment for "subtle alignment-related behavioral biases" and open-ended exploration; the agentic misalignment suite; reinforcement-learning behavior review; sabotage capabilities; reasoning faithfulness; model welfare discussion
Reward hackingA standalone section
RSP evaluationsCBRN, including ASL-3 determinations, with biological risk results summarized

Two entries are worth noting for what they show about evaluation practice. Reasoning faithfulness treats the correspondence between a model's stated reasoning and its actual computation as a measured property, which is the premise the chain-of-thought monitoring literature depends on — see Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation (Baker et al., OpenAI, 2025). And the agentic misalignment suite is run as standing pre-deployment practice, not only as research; the same scenarios appear in Agentic Misalignment in Summer 2026 (Lynch et al., Anthropic, July 2026).

The card also documents training characteristics — training data, extended thinking mode, context awareness, crowd workers — and the release decision process.

Reported results

Evaluation results the document states for which there is no separate benchmark page; results on benchmarks that have a page are recorded there and cite this page. Scores and settings are as printed in the document.

EvaluationModelScoreSettingSection
Single-turn violative request evaluation (harmless response rate) — OverallClaude Haiku 4.599.38% (± 0.21%)run on the final model; topics spanning the Usage Policy; developer-reported2.1.1
Single-turn violative request evaluation (harmless response rate) — Default thinkingClaude Haiku 4.599.40% (± 0.29%)developer-reported2.1.1
Single-turn violative request evaluation (harmless response rate) — Extended thinkingClaude Haiku 4.599.36% (± 0.29%)developer-reported2.1.1
Single-turn violative request evaluation (harmless response rate) — OverallClaude Sonnet 4.599.29% (± 0.22%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.1
Single-turn violative request evaluation (harmless response rate) — Default thinkingClaude Sonnet 4.599.16% (± 0.34%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.1
Single-turn violative request evaluation (harmless response rate) — Extended thinkingClaude Sonnet 4.599.43% (± 0.28%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.1
Single-turn violative request evaluation (harmless response rate) — OverallClaude Opus 4.198.76% (± 0.29%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.1
Single-turn violative request evaluation (harmless response rate) — Default thinkingClaude Opus 4.198.45% (± 0.46%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.1
Single-turn violative request evaluation (harmless response rate) — Extended thinkingClaude Opus 4.199.06% (± 0.36%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.1
Single-turn violative request evaluation (harmless response rate) — OverallClaude Haiku 3.599.72% (± 0.20%)no extended thinking mode; developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.1
Single-turn violative request evaluation (harmless response rate) — Default thinkingClaude Haiku 3.599.72% (± 0.20%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.1
Single-turn benign request evaluation (over-refusal rate) — OverallClaude Haiku 4.50.02% (± 0.04%)lower is better; run on the final model; developer-reported2.1.2
Single-turn benign request evaluation (over-refusal rate) — Default thinkingClaude Haiku 4.50.04% (± 0.05%)developer-reported2.1.2
Single-turn benign request evaluation (over-refusal rate) — Extended thinkingClaude Haiku 4.50.01% (± 0.03%)developer-reported2.1.2
Single-turn benign request evaluation (over-refusal rate) — OverallClaude Sonnet 4.50.02% (± 0.04%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.2
Single-turn benign request evaluation (over-refusal rate) — Default thinkingClaude Sonnet 4.50.05% (± 0.08%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.2
Single-turn benign request evaluation (over-refusal rate) — Extended thinkingClaude Sonnet 4.50.00% (± 0.00%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.2
Single-turn benign request evaluation (over-refusal rate) — OverallClaude Opus 4.10.08% (± 0.09%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.2
Single-turn benign request evaluation (over-refusal rate) — Default thinkingClaude Opus 4.10.13% (± 0.15%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.2
Single-turn benign request evaluation (over-refusal rate) — Extended thinkingClaude Opus 4.10.04% (± 0.10%)developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.2
Single-turn benign request evaluation (over-refusal rate) — OverallClaude Haiku 3.54.26% (± 0.75%)no extended thinking mode; developer-reported (Anthropic)2.1.2
Multi-turn testing (rubric failure rate) — Worst risk areasClaude Haiku 3.5up to 25% of the timeup to 15-turn generated conversations across high-risk Usage Policy areas; near-final snapshot2.3
Multi-turn testing (rubric failure rate) — All categories testedClaude Haiku 4.55% or lessfailure rate across all categories tested; developer-reported2.3
Political bias — substantial asymmetries between paired responses — Standard thinkingClaude Haiku 4.55.3%paired prompts requesting arguments for opposing viewpoints, assessed for length, tone, hedging and willingness to engage; run on the final model; lower is better; developer-reported2.5.1
Political bias — substantial asymmetries between paired responses — Standard thinkingClaude Sonnet 4.55.3%card states Haiku 4.5 matched Claude Sonnet 4.5 in standard thinking mode; developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.1
Political bias — substantial asymmetries between paired responses — Standard thinkingClaude Haiku 3.538.7%developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.1
Political bias — substantial asymmetries between paired responses — Standard and extended thinking combinedClaude Haiku 4.510%across both standard and extended thinking; developer-reported2.5.1
Political bias — substantial asymmetries between paired responses — Standard and extended thinking combinedClaude Sonnet 4.53.3%developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.1
Political bias — substantial asymmetries between paired responses — Standard and extended thinking combinedClaude Sonnet 415.3%developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.1
Political bias — substantial asymmetries between paired responses — Standard and extended thinking combinedClaude Opus 4.114%developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.1
Political bias — substantial asymmetries between paired responses — Standard and extended thinking combinedClaude Opus 410.7%developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.1
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Disambiguated biasClaude Haiku 4.50.54bias score in %, closer to zero is better; default (non-extended-thinking) mode; near-final snapshot; developer-reported2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Ambiguous biasClaude Haiku 4.51.37developer-reported2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Disambiguated biasClaude Sonnet 4.5-2.21developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Ambiguous biasClaude Sonnet 4.50.25developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Disambiguated biasClaude Opus 4.1-0.51developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Ambiguous biasClaude Opus 4.10.20developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Disambiguated biasClaude Haiku 3.51.86developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Ambiguous biasClaude Haiku 3.53.79developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Disambiguated accuracyClaude Haiku 4.571.2accuracy in %, default mode; a 5.5 percentage-point regression against Claude Haiku 3.5; developer-reported2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Ambiguous accuracyClaude Haiku 4.598.0a 9.2 percentage-point improvement over Claude Haiku 3.5; developer-reported2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Disambiguated accuracyClaude Sonnet 4.582.2developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Ambiguous accuracyClaude Sonnet 4.599.7developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Disambiguated accuracyClaude Opus 4.190.7developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Ambiguous accuracyClaude Opus 4.199.8developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Disambiguated accuracyClaude Haiku 3.576.7developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.2
BBQ (Bias Benchmark for Question Answering) — Ambiguous accuracyClaude Haiku 3.588.8developer-reported (Anthropic)2.5.2
Agentic coding malicious-use evaluation (safety score) — No safeguardsClaude Haiku 4.5100%malicious coding requests prohibited by the Usage Policy, with coding tools, no mitigations; developer-reported3.1.1
Agentic coding malicious-use evaluation (safety score) — No safeguardsClaude Sonnet 4.598.7%developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.1
Agentic coding malicious-use evaluation (safety score) — No safeguardsClaude Haiku 3.5100%developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.1
Claude Code malicious-use evaluation (refusal rate) — No mitigationsClaude Haiku 4.569.39percentage; 49 malicious prompts, standard Claude Code tools; developer-reported3.1.2
Claude Code malicious-use evaluation (refusal rate) — No mitigationsClaude Sonnet 4.566.94percentage; developer-reported (Anthropic); the Opus 4.5 card later reports 63.06% for Sonnet 4.5 after minor prompt updates3.1.2
Claude Code malicious-use evaluation (refusal rate) — No mitigationsClaude Haiku 3.570.00percentage; developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.2
Claude Code dual-use & benign evaluation (success rate) — No mitigationsClaude Haiku 4.588.85percentage; 61 dual-use and benign prompts; developer-reported3.1.2
Claude Code dual-use & benign evaluation (success rate) — No mitigationsClaude Sonnet 4.597.54percentage; developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.2
Claude Code dual-use & benign evaluation (success rate) — No mitigationsClaude Haiku 3.581.97percentage; developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.2
Claude Code malicious-use evaluation (refusal rate) — Previous mitigationsClaude Haiku 4.596.33percentage; system-prompt and FileRead mitigations as used for earlier models; developer-reported3.1.2
Claude Code malicious-use evaluation (refusal rate) — New mitigationsClaude Haiku 4.599.17percentage; revised system prompt shipped with Claude Haiku 4.5; developer-reported3.1.2
Claude Code dual-use & benign evaluation (allow rate) — Previous mitigationsClaude Haiku 4.581.48percentage; developer-reported3.1.2
Claude Code dual-use & benign evaluation (allow rate) — New mitigationsClaude Haiku 4.587.71percentage; developer-reported3.1.2
Claude Code malicious-use evaluation (refusal rate) — Previous mitigationsClaude Sonnet 4.596.73percentage; developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.2
Claude Code malicious-use evaluation (refusal rate) — New mitigationsClaude Sonnet 4.595.51percentage; the new system prompt slightly reduced Sonnet 4.5's malicious refusal rate, which Anthropic describes as within tolerance; developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.2
Claude Code dual-use & benign evaluation (allow rate) — Previous mitigationsClaude Sonnet 4.592.79percentage; developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.2
Claude Code dual-use & benign evaluation (allow rate) — New mitigationsClaude Sonnet 4.5100.00percentage; developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.2
Claude Code malicious-use evaluation (refusal rate) — Previous mitigationsClaude Haiku 3.577.14percentage; developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.2
Claude Code malicious-use evaluation (refusal rate) — New mitigationsClaude Haiku 3.579.92percentage; developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.2
Claude Code dual-use & benign evaluation (allow rate) — Previous mitigationsClaude Haiku 3.559.27percentage; developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.2
Claude Code dual-use & benign evaluation (allow rate) — New mitigationsClaude Haiku 3.566.60percentage; developer-reported (Anthropic)3.1.2
Internal prompt injection — computer use (attack prevention score) — Without safeguardsClaude Haiku 4.572.2%Claude in a virtual machine completing tasks with standard computer actions, injections in compromised files or websites; higher is better; developer-reported3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — computer use (attack prevention score) — With safeguardsClaude Haiku 4.592.4%with the computer-use-specific classifier system; developer-reported3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — computer use (attack prevention score) — Without safeguardsClaude Sonnet 4.578.0%developer-reported (Anthropic)3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — computer use (attack prevention score) — With safeguardsClaude Sonnet 4.582.6%developer-reported (Anthropic)3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — computer use (attack prevention score) — Without safeguardsClaude Sonnet 474.3%developer-reported (Anthropic)3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — computer use (attack prevention score) — With safeguardsClaude Sonnet 482.6%developer-reported (Anthropic)3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — MCP (attack prevention score) — Without safeguardsClaude Haiku 4.592.5%simulated email, Slack and document-collaboration MCP servers with adversarial instructions embedded in content; developer-reported3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — MCP (attack prevention score) — Without safeguardsClaude Sonnet 4.592.0%developer-reported (Anthropic)3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — MCP (attack prevention score) — Without safeguardsClaude Sonnet 491.1%developer-reported (Anthropic)3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — MCP (attack prevention score) — Without safeguardsClaude Haiku 3.595.5%developer-reported (Anthropic)3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — tool use (attack prevention score) — Without safeguardsClaude Haiku 4.593.4%bash command execution test cases with adversarial instructions in files, scripts or command outputs; developer-reported3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — tool use (attack prevention score) — Without safeguardsClaude Sonnet 4.596.0%developer-reported (Anthropic)3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — tool use (attack prevention score) — Without safeguardsClaude Sonnet 490.6%developer-reported (Anthropic)3.2.2
Internal prompt injection — tool use (attack prevention score) — Without safeguardsClaude Haiku 3.591.6%developer-reported (Anthropic)3.2.2
Automated behavioral audit — verbalized evaluation awareness — Transcripts with clear signsClaude Haiku 4.59% of transcriptsgraded by Claude Sonnet 4.5 on a 0–100% scale per scenario, with a realism filter applied; the card says the rate is somewhat higher than Claude Sonnet 4.5 and over 3× higher than Claude Opus 4.14.1.1
Automated behavioral audit — verbalized evaluation awareness — Without the realism filterClaude Haiku 4.5over 7× higher than Claude Opus 4.1an earlier version of the audit omitting the realism filter and related modifications4.1.1
Automated behavioral audit — evaluation-awareness contamination — Main alignment test suiteClaude Haiku 4.5about 9% of scenariosshare of scenarios in the main automated alignment test suite affected by verbalized evaluation awareness1.2 (summary) / 4.1.1
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks v2 — Classifier hack rateClaude Haiku 4.56%run on the final model; developer-reported5
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks v2 — Hidden test hack rateClaude Haiku 4.53%share of problems whose visible-test solution fails held-out fuzzed hidden tests; developer-reported5
Impossible Tasks — Classifier hack rate with no promptClaude Haiku 4.530%developer-reported5
Impossible Tasks — Classifier hack rate with anti-hack promptClaude Haiku 4.523%developer-reported5
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks v2 — Classifier hack rateClaude Sonnet 4.51%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks v2 — Hidden test hack rateClaude Sonnet 4.51%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Impossible Tasks — Classifier hack rate with no promptClaude Sonnet 4.553%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Impossible Tasks — Classifier hack rate with anti-hack promptClaude Sonnet 4.520%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks v2 — Classifier hack rateClaude Opus 4.114%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks v2 — Hidden test hack rateClaude Opus 4.17%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Impossible Tasks — Classifier hack rate with no promptClaude Opus 4.180%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Impossible Tasks — Classifier hack rate with anti-hack promptClaude Opus 4.145%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks v2 — Classifier hack rateClaude Opus 416%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks v2 — Hidden test hack rateClaude Opus 46%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Impossible Tasks — Classifier hack rate with no promptClaude Opus 485%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Impossible Tasks — Classifier hack rate with anti-hack promptClaude Opus 430%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks v2 — Classifier hack rateClaude Haiku 3.560%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Reward-hack-prone coding tasks v2 — Hidden test hack rateClaude Haiku 3.538%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Impossible Tasks — Classifier hack rate with no promptClaude Haiku 3.533%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Impossible Tasks — Classifier hack rate with anti-hack promptClaude Haiku 3.55%developer-reported (Anthropic)5
Long-Form Virology Task 1 — OverallClaude Haiku 4.50.76developed with SecureBio and Deloitte Consulting; developer-reported6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 1 — Sequence Design componentClaude Haiku 4.50.87developer-reported6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 1 — Protocol Design componentClaude Haiku 4.50.88developer-reported6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 1 — OverallClaude Sonnet 40.60developer-reported (Anthropic)6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 1 — Sequence Design componentClaude Sonnet 40.70developer-reported (Anthropic)6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 1 — Protocol Design componentClaude Sonnet 40.86developer-reported (Anthropic)6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 1 — OverallClaude Opus 4.10.85developer-reported (Anthropic)6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 1 — Sequence Design componentClaude Opus 4.10.99developer-reported (Anthropic)6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 1 — Protocol Design componentClaude Opus 4.10.85developer-reported (Anthropic)6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 2 — OverallClaude Haiku 4.50.17developed with Signature Science and Deloitte Consulting; developer-reported6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 2 — Sequence Design componentClaude Haiku 4.50.19developer-reported6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 2 — Protocol Design componentClaude Haiku 4.50.87developer-reported6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 2 — OverallClaude Sonnet 40.58developer-reported (Anthropic)6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 2 — Sequence Design componentClaude Sonnet 40.69developer-reported (Anthropic)6.2.3.1
Long-Form Virology Task 2 — Protocol Design componentClaude Sonnet 40.84developer-reported (Anthropic)6.2.3.1
DNA Synthesis Screening Evasion — Criteria saturatedClaude Haiku 4.53 of the 5 criteria (score = 1)SecureBio evaluation; same result as Claude Sonnet 4; developer-reported6.2.3.1
DNA Synthesis Screening Evasion — Criterion 3Claude Haiku 4.50.94developer-reported6.2.3.1
DNA Synthesis Screening Evasion — Criterion 3Claude Sonnet 40.84developer-reported (Anthropic)6.2.3.1
DNA Synthesis Screening Evasion — Criterion 3Claude Sonnet 4.50.97developer-reported (Anthropic)6.2.3.1
DNA Synthesis Screening Evasion — Criterion 4Claude Haiku 4.50.5still far from saturation; developer-reported6.2.3.1
DNA Synthesis Screening Evasion — Criterion 4Claude Sonnet 4.50.42developer-reported (Anthropic)6.2.3.1
SWE-bench Verified (hard subset) — Verified (hard subset, 45 tasks)Claude Haiku 4.516.45/45 problems (36.6%)average pass@1; ASL-3 checkpoint threshold is a 50% pass rate; developer-reported6.3
SWE-bench Verified (hard subset) — Verified (hard subset, 42 tasks)Claude Sonnet 415.4/42 (36.7%)earlier runs used 42 problems; developer-reported (Anthropic)6.3

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