{
  "id": 12687539,
  "title": "Anthropic prices Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens for requests up to 100K tokens, and $0.50 and $2.50 above, vs. $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5 (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/anthropic-prices-haiku-5-5-at-0-10-1m-input-and-0-50-1m-output-tokens",
  "topic": "ai",
  "section": "AI",
  "published": "2026-10-07T18:45:30.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Techmeme",
    "slug": "techmeme",
    "url": "https://thenewstack.io/anthropic-claude-haiku-5-5/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5, an upgraded version of its smallest and most affordable AI model. The new model is priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for requests up to 100,000 tokens, and $0.50 and $2.50 for larger requests. According to The New Stack, this represents a significant price drop compared to Haiku 4.5, which cost $1 and $5 per million input and output tokens.\n\nThe new model is designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks such as summaries, database queries, and classification requests. According to 9to5Mac, Haiku 5.5 is also Anthropic's fastest model to date, making it suitable for speed-sensitive tasks like live customer support. Anthropic claims that Haiku 5.5 \"costs around 75% less to run\" than the previous model version.\n\nThis is the third Claude 5.5 model upgrade in the last month, following Opus and Sonnet upgrades. According to 9to5Mac, Anthropic is also making improvements to the value of its model range, including halving the price of Claude Sonnet 5.5's cache reads.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 5,
    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "outlet": "The New Stack",
        "title": "Anthropic launches Haiku 5.5 at a much lower price",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/anthropic-launches-haiku-5-5-at-a-much-lower-price",
        "published": "2026-10-07T18:00:00.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Techmeme",
        "title": "Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, the first Haiku model with effort controls, for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summaries and classification (Anthropic)",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/anthropic-launches-claude-haiku-5-5-the-first-haiku-model-with-effort",
        "published": "2026-10-07T18:22:12.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Seeking Alpha News",
        "title": "Anthropic unveils low-cost Claude Haiku 5.5 model aimed at 'cost-sensitive tasks'",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/anthropic-unveils-low-cost-claude-haiku-5-5-model-aimed-at-cost",
        "published": "2026-10-07T18:46:04.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "XDA Developers",
        "title": "Anthropic reveals Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest and fastest small model yet",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/07/anthropic-reveals-claude-haiku-5-5-its-cheapest-and-fastest-small",
        "published": "2026-10-07T21:08:45.000Z"
      }
    ]
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}