Anthropic Haiku 5.5: 75% Cheaper, Beats GPT‑6 Luna, New API Credits
Anthropic's Haiku 5.5 cuts costs by 75% versus Haiku 4.5, outperforms GPT‑6 Luna, adds configurable reasoning depth, and introduces monthly API credit tiers.
Anthropic released Haiku 5.5: the model is about 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5 and outperforms GPT-6 Luna.
Faster and smarter Haiku 4.5
Configurable depth of reasoning
Designed for quick tasks and acting as a sub‑agent
For requests up to 100 k tokens, the price is the same as Luna's, but in capabilities it fully surpasses it. At the same time, caching prices for Sonnet 5.5 were halved, and now they give API credits each month:
Max 5x — $100
Max 20x — $200
Team — up to $500 for all team members
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