Analysis Summary
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 is developed by Anthropic. It launched in October 2026, making it a current-generation release. On our leaderboard it earns Professional-tier status, ranking #18 of 697 models in our overall business-suitability ranking. For raw reasoning ability it ranks #18 of 435, putting it in among the very best models we track for overall intelligence.
Its 1M-token context window is larger than 86% of the models we list, suiting long documents, large codebases, and retrieval-heavy workloads. Crucially for business adoption, Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 combines tool use, function calling, vision input, and step-by-step reasoning in a single model, letting teams consolidate several use cases instead of stitching together multiple services.
At $0.100 input and $0.500 output per 1M tokens, Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 is aggressively priced for high-volume use which makes it easy to justify for cost-sensitive, high-throughput deployments. Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 is a dependable pick for businesses that need strong, well-rounded performance without paying frontier prices.
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DFO Verdict
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 currently sits at #18 of 697 models on our board. We class it as a professional-tier model.
Benchmarks
Artificial Analysis data refreshed Oct 8, 2026. Arena ratings from the Oct 2, 2026 text leaderboard, with style control.
Artificial Analysis has not published coding or agentic results for Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 yet. Until it does, the model sits below tested models on the Coding and AI Agents lists.
This model was released recently. Benchmark figures are preliminary and are likely to be updated as independent testing is finalised.
How Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 compares
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 ranks #18 of 435 AI models we track for overall intelligence. Its 1M-token context window is larger than 86% of the models we list. At $0.10 per million input tokens it is cheaper than 65% 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 | $0.10 | $0.000100 |
| Output | $0.50 | $0.000500 |
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A website chatbot handling around 100 customer conversations a day, a few short messages each.
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Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic's small, fast model for high-volume, cost-sensitive work such as summarization, subagents, and browser use. It succeeds Claude Haiku 4.5 with stronger coding, computer use, and..
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Frequently asked questions about Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5
How much does Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 cost?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens.
What is the context window of Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 has a context window of 1,000,000 tokens (1M).
What can Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 do?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 supports image/vision input, tool use, and function calling.
Who created Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5?
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 5.5 is developed by Anthropic and was released on October 7, 2026.
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Last updated: October 8, 2026 8:39 pm