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Claude Haiku 5.5

Anthropic’s fast, low-cost Claude 5.5 small model for high-volume summarization, classification, routing, and sub-agents.

Updated 2026-10-08

9.2

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Quick answer

No free tier is documented for Claude Haiku 5.5.

Listed pricing: $0.10/$0.50 per M tokens (≤100k prompts); higher rates for longer prompts.

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Overview

Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic’s small, speed-first model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for high-volume work where latency and unit economics matter more than maximum reasoning depth. It targets tasks like summarization, classification, routing, and sub-agent steps that would be wasteful to run on a frontier model.

It is aimed at product and platform teams wiring Claude into pipelines, chat backends, and agent systems—especially those already on the Claude Platform, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud, or Microsoft Azure. The October 2026 launch pitched roughly a 90% price cut versus Haiku 4.5 for shorter prompts, with list rates of $0.10 input / $0.50 output per million tokens for prompts ≤100k tokens.

What sets it apart from other cheap small models is the combination of that pricing, prompt-cache reads at $0.01 per million tokens, and Anthropic’s claim that it matches or beats rivals on key benchmarks while remaining the cheapest and fastest Haiku yet. Teams that need deep multi-step reasoning should still prefer a larger Claude; Haiku 5.5 is the workhorse layer underneath.

Is Claude Haiku 5.5 free?

No free tier is documented for Claude Haiku 5.5.

Listed pricing: $0.10/$0.50 per M tokens (≤100k prompts); higher rates for longer prompts.

No figure is estimated here for what is not published. Check Claude Haiku 5.5's own site for the current terms.

Pricing on this page has not been re-verified. The entry was last edited on 2026-10-08, and no separate pricing check has been run since. Treat the figures as a record of what was published then and confirm on the official site.

Claude Haiku 5.5 pricing

Plan	Price	What's included
Standard (≤100k prompts)	$0.10 input / $0.50 output per M tokens	Primary list rate for shorter prompts; suited to high-volume summarization, classification, and routing
Long prompts	$0.50 input / $2.50 output per M tokens	Higher rates for prompts beyond the 100k-token threshold
Prompt cache reads	$0.01 per M tokens	Discounted reads for cached prompt content on repeated workloads

Standard (≤100k prompts) $0.10 input / $0.50 output per M tokens

Primary list rate for shorter prompts; suited to high-volume summarization, classification, and routing

Long prompts $0.50 input / $2.50 output per M tokens

Higher rates for prompts beyond the 100k-token threshold

Prompt cache reads $0.01 per M tokens

Discounted reads for cached prompt content on repeated workloads

Is Claude Haiku 5.5 worth it?

There is no free tier to test it on, so the plans above are the entry cost. The recorded trade-offs are listed below, and any one of them can settle the question on its own.

The 9.2/10 AI Score is an editorial read of published capability, price and shipping pace. Nobody here has hands-on hours with Claude Haiku 5.5. How we verify.

Worth it if

The strengths recorded against this entry.

List pricing of $0.10/$0.50 per M tokens for ≤100k prompts makes high-volume Claude workloads far cheaper than prior Haiku tiers
Strong fit for summarization, classification, routing, and sub-agent steps inside larger Claude systems
Prompt cache reads at $0.01 per M tokens reduce cost when system prompts and tool schemas are reused
Ships across Claude Platform, AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure

Not worth it if

Any one of these blocks your use case.

Not the right default for deep multi-step reasoning—larger Claude models still handle hard analysis better
Longer prompts jump to $0.50/$2.50 per M tokens, so cost control depends on keeping context short
API/model-first product: there is no distinct Haiku-only consumer app beyond Claude’s broader surfaces
Teams already locked into another vendor’s small-model stack may face migration and evaluation overhead

Key features

Low-cost API

List pricing starts at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens for prompts ≤100k tokens, with $0.50/$2.50 rates for longer prompts—built for high-volume throughput rather than occasional frontier calls.

Fast inference

Positioned as the fastest Haiku yet for latency-sensitive paths such as classification, routing, and lightweight agent steps where every millisecond and token dollar counts.

Prompt caching

Cache reads are priced at $0.01 per million tokens, which matters when the same system prompts or tool schemas are reused across large request volumes.

Multi-cloud access

Available on the Claude Platform plus AWS Bedrock, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure, so teams can standardize on Haiku without locking to a single cloud vendor.

How it compares

Tool	Best for	Pricing	Score
Claude Haiku 5.5	—	$0.10/$0.50 per M tokens (≤100k prompts); higher rates for longer prompts	9.2/10
ChatGPT vs ChatGPT →	Users who want one subscription covering reasoning, voice, vision, image and video generation, and agentic browsing in a single app.	Free tier + Plus $20/mo + Pro $200/mo	9.5/10
Claude	Developers and professionals who need agentic coding, computer control, and large-document or codebase analysis in one assistant.	Free tier + Pro $20/mo + Team $30/mo/user	9.5/10
Gemini vs Gemini →	Google Workspace users who want an assistant that can read their Gmail, Drive, and Calendar while reasoning across huge documents or videos in one pass.	Free tier + Advanced $19.99/mo	9.2/10