What Claude Haiku 5.5 costs for real workloads
| Workload | Estimated cost |
|---|---|
| Support chatbot: 100K messages | $23.00 |
| RAG search: 10K queries with 6K-token context | $8.50 |
| Batch summarization: 1,000 long documents | $2.50 |
| Coding agent: 100 tasks, 50K context x 20 turns | $2.45 |
Chatbot: 800 input + 300 output tokens per message. RAG: 6,000 + 500 per query. Summarization: 20,000 + 1,000 per document. Coding agent: 20 turns per task over a 50K-token context, with 95% of input served from cache where the model supports it.
Claude Haiku 5.5 vs similarly priced models
| Model | Provider | Input / 1M | Output / 1M | Cached / 1M | Blended |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ministral 3 8B | Mistral AI | $0.15 | $0.15 | $0.015 | $0.15 |
| Llama 4 Scout | Groq | $0.11 | $0.34 | — | $0.17 |
| gpt-6-luna | OpenAI | $0.10 | $0.50 | $0.010 | $0.20 |
| Ministral 3 14B | Mistral AI | $0.20 | $0.20 | $0.020 | $0.20 |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 | Anthropic | $0.10 | $0.50 | $0.010 | $0.20 |
| Z.ai GLM 5.3 Flash | Mistral AI | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.030 | $0.24 |
| GLM-5.3-Flash | Together AI | $0.15 | $0.50 | $0.030 | $0.24 |
| deepseek-flash | DeepSeek | $0.15 | $0.60 | $0.003 | $0.26 |
| GPT OSS 120B | Groq | $0.15 | $0.60 | — | $0.26 |
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Claude Haiku 5.5 pricing FAQ
How much does the Claude Haiku 5.5 API cost?
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens on Anthropic, with cached input at $0.010 per million. Prices as of November 8, 2026.
How much does Claude Haiku 5.5 cost for 1,000 requests?
At 1,000 input and 500 output tokens per request, 1,000 requests cost about $0.35.
Does Claude Haiku 5.5 have a prompt caching discount?
Yes. Cached input is $0.010 per million tokens, 10x cheaper than fresh input. Workloads that resend the same context, like agents and chat with long system prompts, pay mostly the cached rate.
Is Claude Haiku 5.5 expensive compared to other LLM APIs?
It ranks #10 cheapest of 76 models we track on a blended price (3 input tokens per output token) of $0.20 per million tokens.
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