Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5

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Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 — a small model for high-volume, low-cost work and the company's fastest model, available immediately on all platforms including AWS, Google Cloud and Azure

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The company said requests up to 100,000 tokens cost 90% less than Haiku 4.5 and longer requests 50% less, for about 75% lower average running cost. The same day it halved Sonnet 5.5 cache-read prices and introduced a monthly API credit for Max and Team subscribers, encouraging setups that use the small model as a subagent

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

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