Claude's strongest mini model debuts, price plunges 90%, closing in on DeepSeek?

What happened: Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest, fastest and most capable mini model, available on all platforms including AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Key numbers: Average running cost about 75% lower than Claude Haiku 4.5; pricing 90% lower for requests up to 100,000 tokens, 50% discount above that. Why it matters: Anthropic says Haiku 5.5 suits high throughput, cost sensitive tasks and can serve as a sub agent with Sonnet 5.5, while developers report it costs 12 times more than GPT-6 Luna in one animation case.

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest, fastest and most capable mini model, available on all platforms including AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

Anthropic says Haiku 5.5 suits high throughput, cost sensitive tasks and can serve as a sub agent with Sonnet 5.5, while developers report it costs 12 times more than GPT-6 Luna in one animation case.