Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 across its API, apps and major clouds.
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 for high-volume work
2026-10-07Verified announcementTRIAL
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 across its API, apps, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. The model has a 1M-token context window and targets summaries, compaction, classification, customer support, browser use and coding subagents. Standard pricing is $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens up to 100K prompt tokens, with five-times rates above that threshold.
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Availability: Anthropic API, Claude apps, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure
What this means for you
For teams routing high-volume agent work, Haiku 5.5 sharply lowers the cost floor while keeping long context and broad cloud availability. The 100K price cliff and vendor-only quality claims make workload-specific evaluation essential.
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Technical details & scores
| Context Window | 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Price Under 100k | $0.10 input, $0.01 cache read, $0.125 cache write, $0.50 output per million tokens |
| Price Over 100k | $0.50 input, $0.05 cache read, $0.625 cache write, $2.50 output per million tokens |
| Availability | Anthropic API, Claude apps, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure |
| Positioning | high-volume and latency-sensitive work; coding subagent |
Technical impact 4
Engineering value 5
Adoption signal 4
Maturity 4
Verification cost 2
Risk 3