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Claude Haiku 5.5 pricing and benchmarks

Anthropic’s fastest, lowest-cost model, priced by prompt length, with a 1M-token context window.

Input
$0.10
per 1M tokens
Cached input
$0.01
per 1M tokens
Output
$0.50
per 1M tokens
Capability index
159.0
#11 of 25 tracked

How capable is Claude Haiku 5.5?

Claude Haiku 5.5 scores 159.0 on the Epoch Capabilities Index (confidence interval 156.6–162.1), ranking #11 of the 25 rated models we track. It is a best-value pick: no cheaper model we track scores higher.

BenchmarkTestsScore
GPQA DiamondScience reasoning
89.6%
FrontierMath (Tiers 1–3)Advanced math
75.1%
SimpleQA VerifiedFactual accuracy
23.8%
ARC-AGI-2Abstract reasoning
—
DeepSWECoding
—
APEX-AgentsAgentic work
56.1%

Source: Epoch AI (as “Claude Haiku 5.5”), best recorded result, CC BY 4.0. A dash means no published score. Compare all models

What Claude Haiku 5.5 costs in practice

WorkloadMonthly cost
Support chatbot
100,000 replies a month, ~1,500 input tokens (system prompt + history) and ~400 output tokens each.
$35.00
Document Q&A (RAG)
50,000 questions a month with ~8,000 tokens of retrieved context and ~600 output tokens each.
$55.00
Coding agent
10,000 agent steps a month, ~40,000 input tokens each (70% read from the prompt cache) and ~2,000 output tokens.
$24.80

Pricing details

  • Prompts over 100K tokens, counting cache reads and writes, are billed at $0.50 input / $2.50 output per 1M tokens.
  • Cache writes cost $0.125 (5-minute cache) or $0.20 (1-hour cache) per 1M tokens, 5x that above 100K tokens.
  • US-only inference (inference_geo: "us") costs 1.1x.

Estimate your Claude Haiku 5.5 bill

Standard-tier list prices. Long-context rates apply automatically where the provider publishes a threshold. Excludes cache-write surcharges, taxes, batch and volume discounts.