Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5! Price Drops 90% but Faces Hidden Costs
Anthropic launched the lightweight model Claude Haiku 5.5 as part of the Claude 5.5 series. For regular requests within 100,000 tokens, the cost for input and output per million tokens has dropped to $0.10 and $0.50 respectively, a 90% reduction from the previous version's listed price. The model offers the fastest response time, focusing on high concurrency, low latency, and high cost-effectiveness, making it suitable for high-frequency tasks such as real-time customer service, summary extraction, and data classification. It also introduces adaptive thinking features for the first time.