Claude Haiku 5.5: Anthropic says it costs about 75% less to run
Anthropic's new small model is built for repetitive, high-volume work; the company says it costs around 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5.
Source of truthanthropic.com/claude-haiku-5-5Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7 for quick, repetitive work such as summaries and classification. In the API it costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for requests up to 100,000 tokens. The company says it costs around 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5 on average. It is already in GitHub Copilot. On October 8 Anthropic also launched OSS Scanner, which gives open-source projects free security scans; it is opt-in, and core maintainers of critical open-source projects can enroll. The same day it published a new Usage Policy that takes effect November 12.
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