Claude Haiku 4.5 — API Pricing & Benchmarks
Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic's small reasoning model, released in 2025-10. The API costs $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $5.00 per 1M output tokens ($2.00 blended at a 3:1 ratio), with cached input at $0.10. It supports a 200K-token context window.
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| Provider | Anthropic |
| Input price / 1M tokens | $1.00 |
| Output price / 1M tokens | $5.00 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.10 |
| Blended price (3:1) | $2.00 |
| Context window | 200K |
| Max output tokens | 64K |
| Knowledge cutoff | 2025-02 |
| License | proprietary |
| Input modalities | T+I |
| Output speed (tok/s) | — |
| Released | 2025-10 |
| LMArena Elo | 1395 |
| SWE-bench Verified | 73.3% |
Where Claude Haiku 4.5 fits
On a blended 3:1 basis Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $2.00 per 1M tokens, cheaper than 43% of the 80 priced models in this index. It is built for high-volume, latency-sensitive work — classification, extraction, routing and autocomplete — where per-token price matters more than peak intelligence. Cached input is priced at $0.10 (90% below standard input), which rewards prompt structures with long stable prefixes — see our caching guide.
Price history
| Period | Input $/1M | Output $/1M | Cached $/1M |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-07-18 → current | $1.00 | $5.00 | $0.10 |
No list-price changes recorded since tracking began. Full dataset: price-history.json (CC BY 4.0).
Alternatives at a similar price
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- DeepSeek V4 Pro (DeepSeek) — $1.98/1M blended, AA Index 53.2
About Anthropic
Anthropic builds the Claude family, organized into Opus (flagship), Sonnet (mid-tier) and Haiku (small) tiers alongside the Fable line. Claude models currently lead the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index and are particularly strong on agentic-coding benchmarks such as SWE-bench Verified.