Anthropic prices Haiku 5.5 at $0.10/1M input and $0.50/1M output tokens for requests up to 100K tokens, and $0.50 and $2.50 above, vs. $1 and $5 for Haiku 4.5 (Frederic Lardinois/The New Stack)

Anthropic’s new Claude Haiku 5.5 dramatically lowers the cost of using its smallest model, cutting token pricing versus Haiku 4.5 and making low-latency AI much more economical for high-volume workloads. For CIOs, this improves the business case for embedding generative AI into customer support, workflow automation, and internal productivity tools, while also signaling that model economics are continuing to improve fast enough to justify broader AI deployment and more disciplined cost governance across IT.