Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 with steep price cuts

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On 8 October 2026, Anthropic released the small model Claude Haiku 5.5, calling it its fastest and cheapest model yet. According to The Decoder, its average price is about 75% lower than Haiku 4.5, with cuts of up to 90% for prompts under 100,000 tokens, but prompts above 100,000 tokens cost five times as much. The same day, AWS announced the model was available on Amazon Bedrock and the Claude Platform on AWS. Simon Willison reported pricing of $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, the same as OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna released last month, rising to $0.50/$2.50 beyond 100,000 tokens. Latent Space later reported this was the Haiku line's first update in about a year, and that Anthropic also cut prices for Sonnet 5.5 and its subscription plans the same day.

Written by AI from the reports · updated 8 d ago

LatestOct 8 15:27

Latent Space says this is the Haiku line's first update in about a year, with Sonnet 5.5 and subscription prices also cut the same day.

Developments

2 developments

Oct 8 02:52 · 1 reports
Claude Haiku 5.5 launches on Amazon Bedrock
AWS Machine Learning Blog：Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 on AWS
Oct 8 02:49 · 3 reports
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 with steep price cuts
The Decoder：Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives with massive price cuts proving the AI pricing arms race is far from over

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Oct 8

15:27
Latent SpaceSelected
[AINews] Claude Haiku 5.5 — better than GPT-6 Luna at the same pricing
Anthropic shipped Claude Haiku 5.5, its first Haiku-tier update in about a year. It is priced to match OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna, and Anthropic cut prices on Sonnet 5.5 and its subscription plans the same day.
04:56
Simon WillisonSelected
Claude Haiku 5.5
As previously promised , here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 . The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age.
02:52
AWS Machine Learning BlogSelected
Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 on AWS
Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available on Amazon Bedrock and Claude Platform on AWS. According to Anthropic, it is the fastest, most efficient model in the Claude 5.5 family, built for subagents and high-volume, cost-sensitive work, and costs around 75% less than Claude Haiku 4.5 for most tasks. This post covers its improvements and how to get started.
02:49
The DecoderSelected
Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives with massive price cuts proving the AI pricing arms race is far from over
Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 5.5 crushes its predecessor in benchmarks, jumping from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld computer use test. Token prices drop by up to 90 percent, though a new tokenizer eats into some of those savings by consuming more tokens per task.

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