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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 introduced Claude Haiku 5.5, a new fast, low-cost model. The previous Haiku 4.5 came out almost a year earlier and was priced at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens.
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Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices
SiliconANGLE AI · 07 Oct 2026, 22:28
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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