Brief
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 with lower API prices and monthly credits
The new small AI model targets high‑volume tasks and introduces tiered pricing and credit bundles for subscribers.
By Felo News Desk · Published
Anthropic announced the launch of Claude Haiku 5.5, a compact AI model designed for rapid, high‑volume tasks, and introduced lower API rates alongside monthly credit allowances for Max and Team plans, according to iClarified.
What happened
The company released the model on 8 October 2026, highlighting its suitability for document summarisation, classification, database queries and basic customer‑support interactions. Developers can now select effort levels to balance cost against reasoning depth.
What the reports add
Token pricing is 90 % lower than for Haiku 4.5 on prompts up to 100,000 tokens and 50 % lower on longer prompts, though the updated tokenizer uses slightly more tokens. Anthropic estimates an average 75 % cost reduction. New per‑million‑token rates are $0.10 input and $0.50 output for short prompts, rising to $0.50 input and $2.50 output for longer prompts; cache reads cost $0.01/$0.05 and writes $0.125/$0.625 respectively. Cache reads for Sonnet 5.5 were cut to $0.10 per million tokens.
What was said
Anthropic noted that the model’s benchmark scores rose sharply, from 15.7 % to 72.4 % on the OSWorld 2.1 offline subset and from 735 to 1,620 on the GDPval‑AA v2.1 knowledge‑work test.
How it came about
The release follows Anthropic’s recent integration of Claude Chat and Cowork and the addition of a mod framework to Claude Code, as reported in earlier Felo News articles.
Key facts
- Claude Haiku 5.5 offers 90% lower token pricing for prompts up to 100,000 tokens compared with Haiku 4.5. (iclarified.com)
- Monthly API credits are $100 for Max 5x users, $200 for Max 20x users, and $20 per Standard seat or $100 per Premium seat for Team plans. (iclarified.com)
- Benchmark scores improved from 15.7% to 72.4% on OSWorld 2.1 and from 735 to 1,620 on GDPval‑AA v2.1. (iclarified.com)
Sources
- [1] iclarified.com — originally reported as “Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5. 5, Adds Monthly API Credits for Max and Team Users”
