Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5
Analysis Summary
Anthropic's Claude Haiku 4.5 is a multimodal model with a 200,000-token context window, vision, tool use, and function calling. Its coding index is 43.9 and its agentic index is 41, supported by useful live-coding and terminal benchmark results. The intelligence index is lower than its coding and agentic measures, indicating that its strongest use cases are practical execution and technical assistance rather than the hardest general reasoning tasks.
For client workflows, it is a capable candidate for coding support, tool-assisted automation, document analysis, and routine content production. The listed prices are moderate, making it more suitable for repeated calls than premium-priced research models. Teams should still route high-stakes reasoning to a stronger model and test outputs before publication. Haiku 4.5 fits well as a fast, cost-conscious production option for bounded tasks.
Assessed September 23, 2026
Editorial notes
Claude Haiku 4.5 pairs strong coding and agentic results with vision, function calling, and a 200K context window at lower listed prices than premium models.
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DFO Verdict
Claude Haiku 4.5 pairs strong coding and agentic results with vision, function calling, and a 200K context window at lower listed prices than premium models.
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis data refreshed Oct 8, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 2, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control. Bars: magenta = reasoning, ink = coding and agents, cyan = instructions and long context.
Artificial Analysis no longer lists this model, so its indexes are converted from their older scale to stay comparable.
How Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 compares
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 ranks #127 of 435 AI models we track for overall intelligence, #104 of 198 for coding, #49 of 181 for agentic tasks. Its 200K-token context window is larger than 56% of the models we list. At $1.00 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 24% of comparable models.
Dark bar = input · light bar = output, scaled to the priciest peer.
1M tokens ≈ 8 full-length novels or ~2,500 pages of business documents in a single request.
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.00 | $0.001000 |
| Output | $5.00 | $0.005000 |
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Talk to our teamAbout Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and most efficient model, delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost and latency of larger Claude models. Matching Claude Sonnet 4’s performance..
Frequently asked questions about Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5
How much does Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 cost?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1.00 per million input tokens and $5.00 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 has a context window of 200,000 tokens (200K).
Is Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 good for coding?
On our coding benchmark index, Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 ranks #104 of 198 models, placing it in the broader range of the field for code generation and debugging.
What can Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 do?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 is developed by Anthropic and was released on October 15, 2025.