Artificial Intelligence
Claude Haiku 5.5 launches with lower API costs
Anthropic announced Claude Haiku 5.5 as a cheaper and faster small model, while also lowering Sonnet 5.5 cache-read prices and adding monthly API credits for paid subscribers.
- Anthropic introduced Claude Haiku 5.5 and said it was its cheapest, fastest and most capable small model.
- The company said Haiku 5.5 cost about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5 on average, and 90% less for requests up to 100,000 tokens.
- Anthropic halved Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache-read pricing to $0.10 per million tokens and said the change made most agentic work about 20% cheaper.
- Max 5x users were to receive $100 in monthly API credits, Max 20x users $200, and Team subscribers up to $500 pooled across users.
- Haiku 5.5 was available on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and the Claude Platform, and the company said its Python and TypeScript SDKs were being updated for beta computer use and browser use.
Anthropic introduced Claude Haiku 5.5 and described it as its lowest-cost, quickest and most capable small model so far. It said the model was aimed at high-volume, cost-sensitive work such as summaries, compaction, database queries and classification, and that it could also be used alongside Opus 5.5 and Claude Sonnet 5.5 on coding tasks.
The company said Haiku 5.5 cost about 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5 on average. It said the reduction was 90% for requests up to 100,000 tokens and 50% above that, after taking tokenizer changes into account.
Anthropic also said it reduced Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache-read pricing to $0.10 per million tokens from $0.20. It said that made most agentic work about 20% cheaper and accompanied a monthly API credit for Max and Team subscribers.
Max 5x subscribers were to get $100 a month, Max 20x subscribers $200, and Team subscribers up to $500 shared across users. Anthropic said Haiku 5.5 was available on Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure and the Claude Platform, and that its Python and TypeScript SDKs were being updated to support computer use and browser use in beta.
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Organisations
- Amazon Web Services
- One of the platforms carrying Haiku 5.5
- Google Cloud
- One of the platforms carrying Haiku 5.5
- Microsoft Azure
- One of the platforms carrying Haiku 5.5
Products and systems
- Claude Haiku 5.5
- Anthropic’s new small model
- Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Its cache-read price was cut in half
- Claude Haiku 4.5
- The earlier Haiku model used for price comparisons
- Opus 5.5
- A larger model paired with Haiku 5.5 on coding work
- Claude Platform
- The platform where developers could start with claude-haiku-5-5
- Claude Python and TypeScript SDKs
- Were updated to add beta support for computer use and browser use
- Max 5x
- A subscriber tier that received monthly API credits
- Max 20x
- A subscriber tier that received monthly API credits
- Team
- A subscriber tier that received pooled monthly API credits
How the source tells it
The piece was promotional launch copy, using superlatives, self-reported performance claims and repeated new-product framing.
- hype superlative description of the new model at launch
- vendor boosterism company-run benchmark charts and early customer feedback used to support the claims
- novelty repeated launch and rollout language around the model, pricing, credits and SDK updates
- reassurance the safety section presented alignment gains and tighter safeguards as improvements