Anthropic·· 2026-10-07Featured75
Claude Haiku 5.5 targets fast, high-volume AI workloads
Claude Haiku 5.5 targets fast, high-volume AI workloads
Brief overview
Anthropic released Haiku 5.5 for summaries, classification and agent subtasks. For prompts up to 100,000 tokens, its published API prices are $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens; larger prompts have a separate price tier. The release also halves Sonnet 5.5 cache-read pricing to $0.10 per million tokens. These are publisher-listed prices checked on 8 October.
Why it matters
Editorial takeaway: workload routing matters as much as model choice. Test routine tasks on a smaller model before sending every request to a more expensive one; vendor evaluations do not establish results for your application.
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