Anthropic slashes Claude Haiku 5.5 prices 90% to take on GPT-6 Luna
anthropic releases claude haiku 5.5 with massive price cuts up to 90%, targeting high-volume tasks like data queries and customer support.
anthropic has released claude haiku 5.5, its fastest and most affordable small model to date, designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summarization, database queries, classification, and live customer support. haiku 5.5 costs about 75% less than haiku 4.5, with prices dropping by up to 90% for requests with prompts up to 100,000 tokens. the model shows major benchmark gains over haiku 4.5, scoring 1,620 on the knowledge benchmark gdpval-aa v2.1, more than double the 735 its predecessor managed. haiku 5.5 also beats openai's budget model gpt-6 luna in areas like agentic coding, reaching 39.2% on the agentic coding benchmark terminal-bench 4.0.