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Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, a small model priced at roughly a quarter of Haiku 4.5's running cost, and halved the price for cache reads on Claude Sonnet 5.5.
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Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, a small model priced at roughly a quarter of Haiku 4.5's running cost. The company also halved the price it charges for cache reads on Claude Sonnet 5.5.
Why it matters: Lower prices for a small model and for cache reads reduce the cost of running Claude models in production.
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Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model
Claude Haiku 5.5
Simon Willison's Weblog · 07 Oct 2026, 20:56
Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 on AWS
AWS Machine Learning Blog · 07 Oct 2026, 18:52
Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives with massive price cuts proving the AI pricing arms race is far from over
The Decoder · 07 Oct 2026, 18:49
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