Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5, a new AI model designed to be fast, capable and affordable for developers and businesses.
The new model focuses on tasks that need quick responses and large amounts of AI processing. Anthropic says Haiku 5.5 is its fastest Haiku model so far and is designed for high-volume workloads.
90% Lower API Price
One of the biggest changes with Claude Haiku 5.5 is its much lower API price.
For prompts up to 100,000 tokens, the model costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens.
This is a major reduction compared with the previous Haiku model. For larger prompts above 100,000 tokens, the price is higher, but it is still lower than the previous generation.
The lower price could make it easier for developers to use AI in apps that handle thousands or millions of requests.
Built for Fast AI Tasks
Claude Haiku 5.5 is designed for tasks such as text classification, summaries, data extraction, routing and AI assistants.
It can also be used as a smaller AI agent that works alongside more powerful models. This can help companies reduce costs by using a cheaper model for simpler tasks while keeping larger models for more difficult work.
Stronger Performance
Despite being a smaller model, Haiku 5.5 brings major improvements over its previous generation.
The model can handle computer-use tasks, reasoning and coding-related work more effectively. It also comes with an adjustable effort setting, allowing developers to choose between faster, cheaper responses and deeper reasoning.
Claude Haiku 5.5 also has a 1 million-token context window, giving it the ability to work with very large amounts of information.
More Competition in the AI Market
The launch comes at a time when AI companies are competing heavily on both performance and price.
With its lower API cost, Anthropic is targeting developers who need powerful AI without paying the higher prices normally associated with larger models.
The new pricing also puts Claude Haiku 5.5 directly into competition with other low-cost AI models, including GPT-6 Luna.
What This Means for Developers
For developers, the biggest advantage of Haiku 5.5 may be its combination of speed, performance and low cost.
Companies building customer-support systems, AI agents, automation tools and other large-scale applications can potentially use the model to process more requests while keeping their AI costs under control.
Claude Haiku 5.5 is now available through Anthropic’s platform and major cloud providers.
Key Highlights
Model: Claude Haiku 5.5
Company: Anthropic
Input price: From $0.10 per million tokens
Output price: From $0.50 per million tokens
Context window: 1 million tokens
Focus: Speed, automation and high-volume AI tasks
Main advantage: Much lower API cost
Availability: API and major cloud platforms
