Anthropic slashes Claude Haiku 5.5 token pricing 90%, matching GPT-6 Luna

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/M input below 100K tokens, a 90% cut, and aligns with OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna. Implications for enterprise inference spend and model routing.

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  • Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 with a 90% token-price cut for requests below 100,000 tokens, pricing input at $0.10 per million tokens and output at $0.50 per million tokens. [S1]
  • Above 100,000 tokens, Haiku 5.5 input rises to $0.50 and output to $2.50 per million tokens, a 50% reduction from Haiku 4.5 rather than the headline 90%. [S1]
  • The lower-tier rates match OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna across input, output, and cache read/write lines, removing previous price leverage on those workloads. [S1]

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What happened

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 with a steep token-price cut aimed at high-volume enterprise workloads such as summarization, classification, database queries, and sub-tasks handled by larger agent systems.S1 The headline figure is a 90% reduction on requests under 100,000 tokens, with input priced at $0.10 per million tokens and output at $0.50 per million tokens, identical to OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna base rates.S1 Anthropic estimates roughly 75% lower total workload cost versus Haiku 4.5 once request-size mix and an updated tokenizer are included.S1

Haiku 5.5 is positioned as a supporting worker for Opus- and Sonnet-class agents, not as the recommended model for demanding coding assignments.S1 Rogo's applied AI lead Alex Wang said the model is accurate enough for revenue-figure lookups and cheap enough to run at volume.S1 Anthropic states that approximately 90% of Haiku 4.5 requests fell under the 100,000-token threshold.S1

Above 100,000 tokens, input rises to $0.50 and output to $2.50 per million tokens, a 50% cut from Haiku 4.5, and caching rates scale accordingly.S1 The launch also reduces Sonnet 5.5 caching charges and adds monthly API credits for Max and Team subscribers.S1 The source notes that pricing for requests of exactly 100,000 tokens and the exact token accounting rule are not disclosed.S1

Key numbers from Anthropic's launch materials
MetricReported valueSource
Haiku 5.5 input price (<100K tokens)$0.10 per million tokens[S1]
Haiku 5.5 output price (<100K tokens)$0.50 per million tokens[S1]
Haiku 5.5 input price (>100K tokens)$0.50 per million tokens[S1]
Haiku 5.5 output price (>100K tokens)$2.50 per million tokens[S1]
Haiku 4.5 baseline input/output$1.00 / $5.00 per million tokens[S1]
Estimated workload cost reduction vs. Haiku 4.5~75%[S1]
Share of Haiku 4.5 requests under 100K tokens~90%[S1]
GPT-6 Luna input/output parity$0.10 / $0.50 per million tokens[S1]
Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite input/output$0.30 / $2.50 per million tokens[S1]
Gemini 3.8 Flash promotional end dateDec. 31, 2026[S1]

Background timeline

  1. - Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 with revised token pricing and lower Sonnet 5.5 caching charges. [S1]
  2. No prior milestones disclosed by the source.

XAIPART take

Technical impact

The 5x step between Haiku 5.5's lower and upper tiers means workload shaping matters more than headline rates. Applications that batch above the 100,000-token boundary will see savings shrink from 90% to 50%, and the source notes token prices cannot alone determine job cost. XAIPART analysis

Market impact

Parity with GPT-6 Luna compresses procurement leverage on small-context jobs and pushes differentiation toward context thresholds, cache economics, and negotiated enterprise rates. Procurement teams re-evaluating multi-vendor LLM routing now have a hard floor at $0.10/M input. XAIPART analysis

Action

Engineering leads should map request-size distributions before retraining pipelines on Haiku 5.5, since the 100,000-token cliff and the new tokenizer both affect realized spend. Re-quote representative workloads against GPT-6 Luna, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Grok 4.3 using the same benchmark prompts. XAIPART analysis

XAIPART Forecast

XAIPART expects at least one competing proprietary vendor to publish a sub-$0.10/M input tier for short-context requests within 9 months of this brief, conditional on Gemini 3.8 Flash promotional rates not dropping below $0.30/M input by ; if no such tier appears before this forecast is wrong. XAIPART analysis

Facts are as reported by the cited source. The design-in, sourcing and forward-looking statements above are XAIPART's analysis, not the source's claims. Unconfirmed: the exact billing rule at the 100,000-token boundary, the token accounting that defines the threshold, and any negotiated enterprise discounts are not disclosed by the source.

Corrections: none at publication. This brief will be updated with a timestamp if the source corrects its report.

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Key numbers in the same unit familyComparable figures: Haiku 5.5 input price (<100K tokens) $0.10 per; Haiku 5.5 output price (<100K tokens) $0.50 per; Haiku 5.5 input price (>100K tokens) $0.50 per; Haiku 5.5 output price (>100K tokens) $2.50 per; Haiku 4.5 baseline input/output $1.00; GPT-6 Luna input/output parity $0.10.Haiku 5.5 input price (<100K tokens)$0.10 perHaiku 5.5 output price (<100K tokens)$0.50 perHaiku 5.5 input price (>100K tokens)$0.50 perHaiku 5.5 output price (>100K tokens)$2.50 perHaiku 4.5 baseline input/output$1.00GPT-6 Luna input/output parity$0.10

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  1. Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with 90% API price reduction — https://venturebeat.com/technology/anthropic-launches-claude-haiku-5-5-with-90-api-price-reduction-matching-gpt-6-luna · rss · accessed

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