Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5

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Claude Haiku 4.5 released — a small model at $1/$5 per 1M tokens, 73.3% on SWE-bench Verified (company-reported)

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Anthropic said it gives coding performance similar to Sonnet 4, state of the art five months earlier, at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed; released under ASL-2 after testing found only limited CBRN risk

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Officialanthropic.comhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5

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  1. Previous stopAnthropic releases Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4
  2. This record · stopClaude Haiku 4.5
  3. Next stopClaude Opus 4.5
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In the model family tree — Claude family · 20 versions

  1. Earlier versionClaude Sonnet 4.5
  2. This recordClaude Haiku 4.5
  3. Later versionClaude Opus 4.5
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