Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 With API Prices Starting at $0.10
Claude Haiku 5.5 starts at $0.10 per million input tokens—a 80% price cut that opens cost-efficient agent and batch-processing workloads for enterprises building on Anthropic's API.
Why it matters
Anthropic compresses pricing on its smallest, fastest model while improving benchmark performance, lowering the barrier for practitioners to deploy Claude in high-volume, latency-sensitive agent and integration scenarios. This is a direct competitive move on API economics and developer adoption.
The key facts
5 to knowClaude Haiku 5.5 launched with API pricing starting at $0.10 per million input tokens
Pricing represents significant reduction from prior Haiku tier (exact prior rate not disclosed in article)
Model includes stronger benchmark results vs prior version (specific benchmarks not detailed)
Positioned for cost-efficient AI agent development
Published October 9, 2026
The story so far
Earlier coverage of this storyline
- Claude Haiku 5.5 now available on AI GatewayVercel Blog
- Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 on AWSAWS Machine Learning Blog
- Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5: A Small Model With 1M Context Priced at $0.10 per Million Input TokensMarkTechPost
- Claude Haiku 5.5Simon Willison
- Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read pricesSiliconAngle
- This story
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Publisher excerpt: Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with lower API pricing, stronger benchmark results and new options for developers building cost-efficient AI agents.