Anthropic
Claude Haiku 5.5: Anthropic slashes the price of its fastest AI
🧒 Discovery
It's as if Claude's quick little helper got ten times cheaper to use while staying just as clever.
📰 Essential
Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5, its fastest and cheapest model, cutting API prices by 90% compared with the previous version.
🔬 Expert
The new pricing matches what OpenAI charges for GPT-6 Luna, intensifying a price war over lightweight models built for high-volume use. Anthropic calls Haiku its fastest model at standard speed, yet admits Opus in fast mode is quicker still, without giving tokens-per-second figures, which makes the comparison hard to verify.