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Anthropic's new Claude Haiku 5.5 model is cheaper and faster

Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, a new AI model that matches the price of OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna for up to 100,000 tokens. The new Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens, a significant drop from the previous Haiku 4.5.

By BriefTea Editorial · 8 October 2026 at 17:47

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