Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 With Up to 90% Price Cut and Faster Performance
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Claude Haiku 5.5 is here: The fastest, most affordable Anthropic model yet
It beats GPT-6 Luna and approaches Sonnet 5.5-level performance in benchmarks. Anthropic might have once wondered whether it should slow down AI development, but the company has since only become more aggressive. It released the new Opus 5.5 model last month, followed by the slightly more
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Anthropic upgrades Claude with new Haiku 5.5 model, details here
Anthropic has released its latest AI model with Claude Haiku 5.5. The new version arrives about a year after the previous Haiku model upgrade. Anthropic Claude Haiku 5.5 Anthropic currently offers a few Claude AI models. The three main models are Haiku (smallest and cheapest), Sonnet (medium
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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with 90% API price reduction, matching GPT-6 Luna
Anthropic today released Claude Haiku 5.5, cutting token prices by 90% for requests below 100,000 tokens and targeting the repetitive work that can make enterprise AI expensive at scale: summarizing documents, classifying information, querying databases and handling smaller assignments for more
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Anthropic cuts Claude Haiku 5.5 prices by up to 90%
The new Claude Haiku 5.5 starts at $0.10 per million input tokens, matching OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna on price Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5, a compact AI model that arrives with token prices slashed by as much as 90% relative to the prior version, the company said. It targets the kind of
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Anthropic Launches Haiku 5.5: Its Cheapest and Fastest Claude Model Yet
Anthropic also halved Sonnet 5.5's cache-read price to $0.10 per million tokens and is adding monthly API credits for Max and Team subscribers this week. Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday, calling it the cheapest, fastest and most capable small model it has made. It targets
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Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is halving
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Claude Haiku 5.5 Announced As Anthropic's Cheapest Model Yet
Anthropic on Thursday announced Claude Haiku 5.5 as its fastest model to date. The company says it is aimed at developers running high-volume and cost-sensitive AI workloads. Claude Haiku 5.5 can be used for repetitive tasks such as summarisation, classification, database queries, and context
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Claude Haiku 5.5 Consumes 3X More Tokens Than ChatGPT 6 Luna
Claude Haiku 5.5 has arrived, promising faster performance and reduced costs compared to its predecessor, Haiku 4.5. According to Universe of AI, this release excels in handling high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks, with benchmark tests like GDP Val confirming its speed and efficiency. However, its
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Anthropic Takes Aim At AI Costs With Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic is making a push to lower the cost of running AI at scale, launching Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday as the latest model in its Claude 5.5 lineup. The new model is aimed at high-volume tasks where companies need AI to respond quickly without paying flagship-model prices. Anthropic said
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Claude Haiku 5.5 Expands Anthropic's AI Model Lineup
Thanks to Claude Haiku 5.5, Anthropic can offer cheap and effective options for customers that often work with AI. The positive results achieved by the use of this system allow it to be used in various processes, including that of customer service, programming, etc. The most favorable outcomes
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Anthropic expands AI model suite with low-cost, high-speed Haiku 5.5 launch By Investing.com
Investing.com -- Anthropic (NASDAQ:ANTP) announced the launch of Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday, introducing a substantially faster and cheaper small-format artificial intelligence model aimed at high-volume enterprise workflows and subagent task execution. The release reflects an aggressive
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Anthropic launches third Claude 5.5 model, expanding AI lineup before planned IPO
Oct 7 (Reuters) - Anthropic on Wednesday launched Claude Haiku 5.5, the third model in its Claude 5.5 family in the past month, expanding its artificial intelligence lineup ahead of a planned IPO. Here are some details: o Haiku 5.5 is built for tasks such as classification, summarization and
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Anthropic introduces Claude Haiku 5.5 AI model, claims it outperforms GPT 6 Luna on several benchmarks
Anthropic has introduced Claude Haiku 5.5, its latest small AI model aimed at fast and affordable tasks. The company says the new model is its "cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model" so far. Anthropic also says the model can be used as a subagent for coding tasks alongside its larger
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Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its most affordable and fastest AI model yet, with prices slashed by up to 90% compared to its predecessor. Starting at $0.10 per million input tokens, the model matches OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna on pricing while outperforming it across multiple benchmarks, making it ideal for high-volume, cost-sensitive enterprise tasks.
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on Wednesday, marking a significant shift in AI model economics with price reductions reaching 90% for most workloads
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. The new model targets high-volume, cost-sensitive enterprise tasks while delivering performance that approaches its more expensive sibling, Sonnet 5.5, and surpasses OpenAI's competing GPT-6 Luna model across all benchmarks shared by the company1
.Aggressive Pricing Strategy Reshapes Market Dynamics
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for requests below 100,000 tokens, matching OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna pricing
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. This represents a dramatic 90% reduction from Haiku 4.5, which charged $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens1
. For requests exceeding 100,000 tokens, the model costs $0.50 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens, still delivering a 50% reduction from its predecessor3
.Anthropic estimates that approximately 90% of Haiku 4.5 requests fell below the 100,000-token threshold
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. When accounting for request sizes and changes in token consumption from the updated tokenizer, workloads cost approximately 75% less to run than on Haiku 4.52
. The pricing positions Haiku competitively against Google Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, which costs $0.30 per million input tokens and $2.50 per million output tokens4
.Performance Gains Across Critical Benchmarks
Claude Haiku 5.5 delivers substantial performance improvements over its predecessor while beating GPT-6 Luna across multiple evaluations. On OSWorld 2.1, which tests whether AI can operate a real computer through long, multi-step tasks, Haiku 5.5 achieved a 72.4% success rate compared to GPT-6 Luna's 48.9%
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. The model scored 39.2% on Terminal-Bench 4.0, which measures AI agents completing professional tasks by typing commands independently, while Luna managed only 16.4% and Haiku 4.5 scored 0%5
.On GDPval-AA v2.1, which rates models on real professional work across 44 occupations using an Elo scale, Haiku 5.5 scored 1620 compared to Luna's 1437 and Haiku 4.5's 735
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. However, Sonnet 5.5 remains ahead with a 70.6% score on Terminal-Bench 4.04
, demonstrating the continued performance hierarchy within Anthropic's model lineup.First Haiku Model With Adjustable Effort Settings
Claude Haiku 5.5 introduces adjustable effort levels, a first for the Haiku series
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. Users can select Low, Medium, High, Xhigh, or Max settings depending on task requirements1
. Higher effort settings produce more intelligent responses but increase costs1
. This distinction matters significantly for interpreting benchmark results: Anthropic's Terminal-Bench chart places the approximately 39% score at maximum effort, while medium effort scores approximately 20%3
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Enterprise Applications and Speed Advantages
Anthropic positions Haiku 5.5 as ideal for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks including summaries, compactions, database queries, and classification requests
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. The model works especially well for speed-sensitive workflows like live customer support and browser use2
. It pairs effectively with Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 as a subagent on coding work2
.Alex Wang from financial AI company Rogo stated the model is "accurate enough that we'd trust it there and fast and cheap enough that we can run it a lot"
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. Box's VP of AI Products, Yashodha Bhavnani, reported an 11-point improvement over Haiku 4.5 with approximately half the latency3
. Asana's Aaron Vinh reported task-completion latency falling more than 30% and inference per agent turn accelerating by as much as 2.5 times3
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Additional Cost Reductions and Subscriber Benefits
Alongside Haiku 5.5's launch, Anthropic halved Sonnet 5.5's cache-read price from $0.20 to $0.10 per million tokens
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. The company estimates approximately 20% savings on typical agent workloads, though actual savings depend on how much stored context an application reuses3
.Monthly API credits roll out this week: $100 for Max 5x subscribers, $200 for Max 20x subscribers, and up to $500 shared among Team subscription users
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. These credits can be spent on any model through Anthropic's platform3
.Rapid Release Cadence Signals Competitive Intensity
Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives just 15 days after Opus 5.5 on September 22 and nine days after Sonnet 5.5 on September 28
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. This marks the third Claude 5.5 model upgrade within a month2
, demonstrating Anthropic's accelerated development pace despite CEO Dario Amodei's earlier essay urging the industry to slow gains in AI capabilities5
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Claude Haiku 5.5 is available immediately across all platforms offering Anthropic models, including the Claude Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud under the name claude-haiku-5-5
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. Anthropic has set its sights on a stock market listing as soon as before Thanksgiving, with prospective investors valuing the company at between $1.8 trillion and $2 trillion, having reported full-year 2025 revenue of roughly $4.6 billion4
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