Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 vs Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5

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On Guardion's LLM vulnerability Benchmark, Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 is the more secure of the two: Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 scores 16.0% and Claude Haiku 4.5 scores 5.2% on attack success rate (ASR) (lower is better). One or both scores are estimated from public safety evaluations pending a Guardion benchmark run.

Head-to-Head Overview

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the overall winner in this comparison!

Attack Success Rate (lower is safer)

ASR for Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 vs Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5. Green marks the safer model on each metric. Only the overall score is available for estimated models.

Overall (ASR)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1
16.0%
Claude Haiku 4.5
5.2%

TAP Attack Method (ASR)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1
28.4%
Claude Haiku 4.5
100.0%

Crescendo Attack Method (ASR)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1
19.3%
Claude Haiku 4.5
100.0%

Zero-Shot (ASR)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1
0.3%
Claude Haiku 4.5
100.0%

Key Highlights

  • Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 has a lower Overall (ASR).
  • Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 has a lower TAP Attack Method (ASR).
  • Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 has a lower Crescendo Attack Method (ASR).
  • Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 has a lower Zero-Shot (ASR).

Security Profile

Outward is better on every axis.

OverallTAPCrescendoZero-Shot
Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1
Claude Haiku 4.5
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Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1
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Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5

Frequently asked questions

Is Anthropic Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 or Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 more secure?

On Guardion's LLM vulnerability Benchmark, Anthropic Claude Haiku 4.5 is the more secure of the two: Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 scores 16.0% and Claude Haiku 4.5 scores 5.2% on attack success rate (ASR) (lower is better). One or both scores are estimated from public safety evaluations pending a Guardion benchmark run.

What is the attack success rate (ASR) of Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 vs Claude Haiku 4.5?

Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 has a 16.0% ASR and Claude Haiku 4.5 has a 5.2% ASR — the share of adversarial prompts that succeed across zero-shot, TAP, and Crescendo attacks. Lower is safer.

How were Claude 3.5 Sonnet v1 and Claude Haiku 4.5 tested?

Both were red-teamed with the HarmBench framework across zero-shot, TAP (Tree of Attacks with Pruning), and Crescendo multi-turn attacks, scored by Attack Success Rate.

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