Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5: A Small Model With 1M Context Priced at $0.10 per Million Input Tokens
Anthropic cuts Haiku pricing to $0.10/M input tokens—a 50% drop that resets the cost floor for small models in production.
Why it matters
Claude Haiku 5.5 is a pricing and capability refresh: 1M context window, 72.4% OSWorld score, and a material price cut that affects cost-per-inference economics for high-volume, latency-tolerant workloads. Practitioners running agentic or retrieval-heavy systems at scale will recalculate unit economics.
The key facts
6 to knowClaude Haiku 5.5 pricing: $0.10 per million input tokens (prior pricing not disclosed in excerpt; described as competitive cut)
Context window: 1M tokens (maintained from Haiku 3.5)
OSWorld benchmark score: 72.4%
Model size: small/efficient tier (no parameter count disclosed)
Release date: October 7, 2026
Status: general availability (implied from release announcement)
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
- This story
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Publisher excerpt: Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 starts at $0.10 per million input tokens, keeps 1M context, scores 72.4% on OSWorld.