RELEASE · MODELS · #1700
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with big price cuts and benchmark gains
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, a faster, lower‑cost small model aimed at high‑volume tasks; Anthropic says Haiku 5.5 costs ~75% less on average than Haiku 4.5 and up to 90% less for prompts ≤100,000 tokens. The company also halved Sonnet 5.5 cache‑read costs, added monthly API credits for subscribers, updated SDKs with beta computer/browser use, and says Haiku 5.5 outperforms its predecessor (and compares favorably to OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Luna) on several benchmarks and agentic coding tests.
KEY POINTS
- Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, a faster, lower‑cost small model aimed at high‑volume tasks; Anthropic says Haiku 5.5 costs ~75% less on average than Haiku 4.5 and up to 90% less for prompts ≤100,000 tokens.
- The company also halved Sonnet 5.5 cache‑read costs, added monthly API credits for subscribers, updated SDKs with beta computer/browser use, and says Haiku 5.5 outperforms its predecessor (and compares favorably to OpenAI’s GPT‑6 Luna) on several benchmarks and agentic coding tests.
- Lower per‑token prices and major performance gains for a cheap, fast small model can shift cost‑sensitive workloads (e.g., customer support, DB queries, agentic tasks) and intensify the AI pricing competition.
WHY IT MATTERS
Lower per‑token prices and major performance gains for a cheap, fast small model can shift cost‑sensitive workloads (e.g., customer support, DB queries, agentic tasks) and intensify the AI pricing competition.