Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, cutting small-model costs by about 75%

Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, billed as its quickest and cheapest small model. Prompts up to 100,000 tokens now cost $0.10 per million input tokens, 90% below Haiku 4.5, while longer ones are 50% cheaper; Anthropic puts the average saving near 75%. It is the first Haiku with an adjustable effort control and runs on AWS, Google Cloud and Azure.
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- 01VentureBeat — Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with 90% API price reduction, matching GPT-6 Lunaventurebeat.com
- 02Decrypt — Anthropic Launches Haiku 5.5: Its Cheapest and Fastest Claude Model Yetdecrypt.co
- 03Help Net Security — Anthropic's new budget model gets much better at ignoring hidden commandshelpnetsecurity.com