Claude Haiku 5.5
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- Claude Haiku 5.5 is the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model from Anthropic, designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summarization, database queries, and classification.
- It is about 75% cheaper to run than Haiku 4.5 on average, with significant price reductions for cache reads and inputs/outputs.
- The model includes an adjustable effort setting, allowing users to optimize for cost or intelligence.
- Performance benchmarks show major improvements over Haiku 4.5 in knowledge work, computer use, reasoning, agentic coding, and visual reasoning.
- Safety improvements include fewer misaligned behaviors and improved cybersecurity and biology safeguards.
- Haiku 5.5 is available on all major cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) and the Claude Platform.
- Alongside the launch, Claude Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices are halved, and new monthly API credits are introduced for Max and Team subscribers.
- The model is especially suited for speed-sensitive tasks like live customer support and browser use, and works well as a subagent with larger models.