ANTHROPIC LAUNCHES CLAUDE HAIKU 5.5, ITS CHEAPEST MODEL YET

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7, calling it the cheapest, fastest and most capable small model it has ever shipped. The company says it costs around 75% less to run on average than Haiku 4.5, with list prices of $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens. It is the first Haiku model with an adjustable effort setting and is available now on Claude.ai, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.