Claude Haiku 5.5(anthropic.com)
1034 points by sfkgtbor 6 days ago | 482 comments
tl;dr: Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its fastest and cheapest small model, priced ~75% lower than Haiku 4.5 ($0.10/$0.50 per million input/output tokens for prompts under 100k), with an adjustable effort setting and benchmarks competitive with GPT-6 Luna on tasks like OSWorld and Terminal-Bench. Alongside the launch, Anthropic halved Sonnet 5.5 cache-read prices (cutting agentic workload costs ~20%) and added monthly API credits ($100–$500) for Max and Team subscribers. SDKs now support computer and browser use in beta.
HN Discussion:
  • ↑Benchmarks and testing confirm Haiku 5.5 is cheap, fast, and competitive with Luna
  • ~The 100k token pricing cutoff is awkwardly low for agentic workloads
  • ↑Monthly API credits for Max/Team subscribers are a significant valuable benefit
  • ↓Haiku 5.5 underperforms in practice on complex UI tasks and real workloads
  • ↑Pricing drop finally addresses Haiku's prior uncompetitiveness vs Luna