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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Update, October 8, 2026:
Benchmarking platform Artificial Analysis ranks Haiku 5.5 as the leading small-class model with a score of 43 on its Intelligence Index, just ahead of GLM-5.3 Flash (42), Gemini 3.8 Flash (41), and GPT-6 Luna (38). A 13-point gap to Claude Sonnet 5.5 remains.
Artificial Analysis flags a much higher token consumption, though. At the highest effort level, Haiku 5.5 uses about 162,000 output tokens per task on the Intelligence Index, roughly three times the 50,000 tokens…
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