Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives with massive price cuts proving the AI pricing arms race is far from over
Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 5.5 crushes its predecessor in benchmarks, jumping from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld computer use test. Token prices drop by up to 90 percent, though a new tokenizer eats into some of those savings by consuming more tokens per task.
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Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, the company's fastest and most affordable small model to date. Benchmark results show a major performance jump over its predecessor, and Anthropic is also cutting prices for Sonnet 5.5.
Haiku 5.5 is designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks like summarization, database queries, classification, and live customer support, according to Anthropic. On average, the model costs about 75 percent less than Haiku 4.5. For requests with prompts up to 100,000 tokens, which Anthropic says account for…
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