Claude Haiku 5.5
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 writes text and understands images, available to developers and not free to download.
Key facts
- Released
- Oct 7, 2026
- What it does
- Text and chat: Writes, answers questions and holds a conversation.Thinks first: Can reason step by step before it answers: slower, but better at maths, code and tricky questions.Sees images: Understands pictures, screenshots and charts you share with it.Reads files: Reads documents such as PDFs.
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- Knowledge cutoff
- June 2026 · the latest events it learned about
- How
- For developers, through an API
- Announced as
- “Claude Haiku 5.5”
From trckr's archive of releases before it started watching. Date and details from Epoch AI's database of AI models (CC BY 4.0).
Price and limits
What developers pay to use it through the API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet., per million Tokens: The small chunks of text a model reads and writes, about three-quarters of a word each. Prices and limits are counted in tokens. sent (input) or written back (output), and how much it can take in at once.
- Input
- $0.10
- per million tokensCached: $0.01
- Output
- $0.50
- per million tokens
- Context window: How much a model can keep in mind at once: your question, any files you share and its own replies. Measured in tokens; 1,000 tokens is about 750 words.
- 1M tokens
- about 750,000 words
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- Longest answer
- 128K tokens (about 96,000 words)
- Over 100K tokens
- $0.50 input, $2.50 output per million tokens
From the lab's own listing on models.dev and OpenRouter, checked .
How it scores
From independent testers, never the lab's own claims.
- Combined test score#15 of 235
- GPT-6 Astra169
- 2GPT-6.1 Sol169
- 14GPT-5.6 Terra161
- 15Claude Haiku 5.5160
- 16GPT-5.4 Pro160
Source: Epoch AI · Epoch Capabilities Index
- Building apps, by people's votes#31 of 85
- Claude Opus 5.51,818
- 2Claude Sonnet 5.51,773
- 30GLM-5.21,608
- 31Claude Haiku 5.51,595
- 32Qwen 3.8 27B1,591
Source: LMArena · LMArena WebDev
Compare Claude Haiku 5.5 with
It came out 9 days after Claude Sonnet 5.5, the lab's previous model.
The details
Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's text model that handles question answering, text generation, and image understanding, accessed through API: How developers plug a model into their own apps and pay per use. A model that's "in the API" can be used by programmers, even if it isn't in a chat app yet. access. Its size has not been disclosed.
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