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Claude Haiku 5.5
Meet Claude Haiku 5.5 — a compact, low-cost model tuned for bulk work, delivering quick answers and steady output without inflating your bill.
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Where Claude Haiku 5.5 Pays Off Most
A lean model built to keep high-volume, cost-sensitive workloads moving without the usual spend.
- Budget-FriendlyOn average, serving requests through Claude Haiku 5.5 costs about 75% less than the earlier Haiku 4.5 model.
- Made for ScaleTakes on brief, recurring jobs such as compaction, summaries, lookups and sorting across large batches.
- Coding CompanionActs as a subagent alongside Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5, and suits live support and browser-driven tasks.
Getting Started with Claude Haiku 5.5
Follow three short steps to point Claude Haiku 5.5 at your repetitive workloads.
Common Questions About Claude Haiku 5.5
Straight answers on pricing, safety measures and where to access Claude Haiku 5.5.
How does Claude Haiku 5.5 stack up against Haiku 4.5 on price?
On average it runs about 75% cheaper; prompts up to 100K tokens cost 90% less, and anything longer is priced 50% below the earlier model.
What's new with Sonnet 5.5 cache reads?
Cache reads for Sonnet 5.5 now cost $0.10 per million tokens, down from $0.20 — a 50% cut that trims most agentic Sonnet 5.5 spend by roughly 20%.
Which monthly API credits come with Max and Team plans?
Plans now include a monthly credit: $100 on Max 5x, $200 on Max 20x, and as much as $500 pooled for Team, usable across any Claude model.
How does Claude Haiku 5.5 score on alignment evaluations?
Scores rose noticeably versus Haiku 4.5: fewer misaligned behaviors appeared, and the model proved less likely to cooperate with misuse.
Which safeguards protect Claude Haiku 5.5?
Cyber protections fall between Haiku 4.5 and the newer large models in strictness, biology protections match Sonnet 5, Sonnet 5.5 and Opus 5, and verification programs remain open for broader research.
Where can I use Claude Haiku 5.5, and how do I migrate?
claude-haiku-5-5 is callable now on the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure, and a migration guide covers the transition.
Put Claude Haiku 5.5 to Work Today
Launch claude-haiku-5-5 on the Claude Platform, follow the migration guide, and apply your monthly API credits to your next agent or application.