Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5 from Anthropic is a fast, affordable model with solid instruction-following, vision support, and tool-use capabilities, making it a practical choice for high-volume content and automation tasks. Its intelligence index sits in the 'good' range, and at $1/$5 per million tokens it offers strong value within the Anthropic ecosystem.
Assessment date: March 12, 2026
Our methodology takes into account a range of factors including pricing, functionality, capabilities, benchmark performance, and real-world applicability. Rankings are reviewed and updated regularly as new models are released. Issues with our rankings? Contact us
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 across reasoning, coding, and computer-use tasks, Haiku 4.5 brings frontier-level capability to real-time and high-volume applications. It introduces extended thinking to the Haiku line; enabling controllable reasoning depth, summarized or interleaved thought output, and tool-assisted workflows with full support for coding, bash, web search, and computer-use tools. Scoring >73% on SWE-bench Verified, Haiku 4.5 ranks among the world’s best coding models while maintaining exceptional responsiveness for sub-agents, parallelized execution, and scaled deployment.
Capabilities
Architecture
| Modality | Text + Image → Text |
| Tokenizer | Claude |
Performance Indices
Source: Artificial Analysis
Benchmark Scores
Evaluations
Benchmark data from Artificial Analysis and Hugging Face
Model Information
Pricing
| Token Type | Cost per 1M tokens | Cost per 1K tokens |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $1.00 | $0.001000 |
| Output | $5.00 | $0.005000 |
Live Performance
Live endpoint metrics — refreshed every 30 minutes.
