Claude Haiku 5.5 Price and When to Use It

Claude Haiku 5.5 Price and When to Use It

Your browser does not support the video tag. 0:00 Claude Haiku 5.5: price, GPT-6 Luna comparison and where to use it Claude Haiku 5.5 in 30 Seconds Price: $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100K tokens; $0.50 / $2.50 above that. That is 90% below Haiku 4.5 and exactly GPT-6 Luna’s rate. Real saving: about 75% on an average workload, once the new tokenizer and the long-prompt tier are counted. Use it for summaries, classification, compaction, browser and computer use, and as a subagent under Sonnet 5.5 or Opus 5.5. Do not use it as the lead model on complex agentic coding. Released October 7, 2026, on the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud and Azure. Model ID: claude-haiku-5-5. Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, 2026, closing out the 5.5 family that started with Opus 5.5 on September 22 and Sonnet 5.5 on September 28. There was never a Haiku 5: the line jumped straight from Haiku 4.5. ...

October 7, 2026 ·  6 min ·  1276 words
Claude Opus 5.5 Price, Benchmarks and Limits

Claude Opus 5.5 Price, Benchmarks and Limits

Summary: Claude Opus 5.5 in 30 Seconds Released 22 September 2026, available the same day on every platform Anthropic ships to. $4 in / $20 out per million tokens, against $5 / $25 on Opus 5. Cache reads drop from $0.50 to $0.20. Anthropic measures a 40% lower total cost on typical workloads and 30%+ faster output generation. Model ID is claude-opus-5-5. Four breaking API changes land with it. Sonnet 5.5 and Haiku 5.5 follow in the coming weeks. What Opus 5.5 Costs The headline price is 20% under Opus 5, but the number that moves most bills is the cache read rate. On agentic and coding work, cache reads are where the majority of spend lands, and they got 60% cheaper. ...

September 22, 2026 ·  6 min ·  1213 words