Claude Haiku 5.5 pricing: API and Claude plans
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output, with a 1M context window. In Claude, it comes with the free plan, and the cheapest paid plan with it is Pro at $20/mo.
US dollars per million tokens, standard rate, shortest context band. Plan prices read 20 October 2026.
- 1,000 support replies
- $0.50
- Cached input
- $0.01
- Context window
- 1,000,000 tokens
- Released
- 7 Oct 2026
- Weights
- Closed weights
From Anthropic’s own pages, 15 October 2026.
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens on Anthropic’s own API, and $0.01 for cached input. At those prices 1,000 support replies cost $0.50, the cheapest of 42 priced models on our list.
In Claude: Claude Haiku 5.5 is included in Free ($0/mo), Pro ($20/mo), Max 5x ($100/mo), Max 20x ($200/mo), Team Standard ($25/mo), Team Premium ($125/mo).
claude.com/pricing · Read 20 October 2026. Prices can differ by country and include or exclude tax depending on the country.
What a job costs
Three jobs, 1,000 runs of each, at the list price above, and where each puts Claude Haiku 5.5 among the 42 models with a list price.
| Job | 1,000 runs | Among 42 |
|---|---|---|
| Support reply3,000 in, 400 out. | $0.50 | cheapest |
| Document summary25,000 in, 1,000 out. | $3.00 | cheapest |
| Agent task80,000 in (70,000 cached), 3,000 out. | $3.20 | cheapest |
The token counts are ours, chosen to look like real work; the prices are Anthropic’s. All three jobs stay under 100,000 tokens a request, below every long-context surcharge on the list.
The small print
What the base rate above leaves out, copied from the maker’s pages: surcharges, discounts, promotions and cache pricing.
Prices are for prompts up to 100,000 tokens. A longer prompt bills $0.50 / $2.50, cache read $0.05, and its length counts cache reads and writes. Cache write $0.125 (5 min) or $0.20 (1 h) up to 100,000 tokens. Batch API 50% off. US-only inference bills 1.1x, the higher band included. Its tokenizer counts the same text as about 30% more tokens than Claude Haiku 4.5. Max output 128K.
Claude Haiku 5.5 against the models it is weighed with
Each comparison puts both list prices side by side and costs the same three jobs on each.
- vs GPT-6 Luna
- The newest small models from Anthropic and OpenAI, at the same $0.10 / $0.50 list price.
- vs Claude Haiku 4.5
- Anthropic's new Haiku lists at a tenth of the one it replaces up to 100,000 tokens, though it counts more tokens.
- vs Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite
- Anthropic's new small model against Google's newest Flash-Lite, with Haiku a third of the price or less.
Other Anthropic models
| Model | Input | Output | Context | 1,000 replies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5AnthropicNewer model: Claude Haiku 5.5 | $1.00 | $5.00 | 200K | $5.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 5.5Anthropic | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M | $10.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 5AnthropicNewer model: Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $2.00 | $10.00 | 1M | $10.00 |
| Claude Sonnet 4.6AnthropicNewer model: Claude Sonnet 5.5 | $3.00 | $15.00 | 1M | $15.00 |
| Claude Opus 5.5Anthropic | $4.00 | $20.00 | 1M | $20.00 |
| Claude Opus 5AnthropicNewer model: Claude Opus 5.5 | $5.00 | $25.00 | 1M | $25.00 |
| Claude Fable 5.1Anthropic | $10.00 | $50.00 | 1M | $50.00 |
Where the price comes from
Read on 15 October 2026. Each price is the standard rate for the shortest context band, with no batch or priority discount; long-context surcharges, batch rates and promotions are in each model’s small print. No price was taken from a reseller.
Compare Claude Haiku 5.5 with 45 other models
The price list sets every model’s input and output price side by side, with what a support reply, a document summary and an agent task cost on each.
Prices checked 15 October 2026 · See them by release date