Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 at 90% lower prices
Claude Haiku 5.5, released Oct. 7, costs 90% less than Haiku 4.5 for prompts up to 100,000 tokens. It leads on benchmarks but uses more tokens per task.
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Claude Haiku 5.5, released Oct. 7, costs 90% less than Haiku 4.5 for prompts up to 100,000 tokens. It leads on benchmarks but uses more tokens per task.
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