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Haiku 5.5 cuts API prices for small teams
Anthropic’s new small model lowers API prices sharply. Teams still need to watch prompt length, token counts and the cost of getting a usable answer.
- AI’s role
- Haiku 5.5 is a small language model for tasks such as classification, extraction and first-pass summaries.
- Documented result
- Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, with a substantial price cut for the short, repeated jobs that can add up across a business. For a small team, the opportunity is to test more routine work: sorting support tickets, extracting fields from documents or making first-pass summaries before someone reads the originals.
- Important limitation
- On Anthropic’s platform, prompts of up to and including 100,000 tokens cost $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens. Above that prompt length, the rates rise to $0.50 and $2.50. Haiku 4.5’s base rates were $1 and $5. These are US-dollar API charges, measured in tokens, rather than a price for a chat subscription.