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Anthropic has expanded its Claude 5.5 lineup with Haiku 5.5, a cost-optimized model priced at roughly one-quarter of its predecessor to target high-volume summarization and subagent workflows. Despite the lower price point, benchmarks indicate Haiku 5.5 outperforms OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna across six tests, particularly excelling in agentic coding tasks where it nearly doubled Luna's score. This release underscores a competitive shift toward offering specialized, cheaper models for specific operational tiers while maintaining superior performance on complex reasoning benchmarks.
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices
Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is halving what it charges for cache reads on that model. Two weeks after Opus 5.5 launched Sept. 22, Haiku 5.5 […] The post Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices appeared first on SiliconANGLE.
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is halving what it charges for cache reads on that model. Two weeks after Opus 5.5 launched Sept. 22, Haiku 5.5 makes three models in the 5.5 generation. Anthropic…
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