Anthropic priced Claude Haiku 5.5 about 75% below its predecessor
The October 2026 model cost $0.10 per million input tokens, part of a price war over small, fast models.
Kivorent News desk, published , 1 min read
$0.10per million input tokens for Claude Haiku 5.5
This is a look back at news from the week of . We wrote it on November 11, 2026, from the sources listed at the end.
Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 in early October 2026, according to AI Weekly's summary of the company's announcement.
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | |
|---|---|
| Input | $0.10 per million tokens |
| Output | $0.50 per million tokens |
Those prices apply to prompts under 100,000 tokens and are roughly 75% below Haiku 4.5.
Why it mattered
Small models do the bulk of routine AI work: sorting, summarizing, answering simple questions. Their price sets the cost of building AI into ordinary software.
The cut came a week after OpenAI reduced its own prices by four-fifths. For anyone building on these models, the cost of the same task fell sharply in the space of a month.
Sources
- AI news for October 8, 2026, AI Weekly
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