Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5 — its fastest and cheapest model yet, priced at $0.10 per million input tokens in the US, with a 1-million-token context window. It’s live globally as of Tuesday, October 8, 2026, according to Android Authority’s report published at 5:33 a.m. ET. No Indian pricing or regional rollout details were provided in the source material.
The model is positioned for high-volume, cost-sensitive workloads, think real-time log analysis, bulk document summarisation, or lightweight API-driven agents. Haiku 5.5 outperforms Haiku 4.5 “by a noticeable margin”, per Anthropic’s own benchmark data. It also beats OpenAI’s GPT-6 Luna across all shared metrics. And comes close to Sonnet 5.5’s performance, despite costing less.
That gap matters: Android Authority notes Haiku 5.5 costs nearly 75% less than Haiku 4.5. This is Anthropic’s third major model release in under a month, Opus 5.5 landed last month, Sonnet 5.5 followed “nearly a week ago”, and now Haiku 5.5 arrives. The pace signals a clear shift from earlier caution about AI development speed to aggressive, tiered model deployment.
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