Anthropic Haiku 5.5 Collapses the Small-Model Pricing Floor at $0.10/$0.50 — Eight Days Before the October 15 Deadline

Anthropic’s release of Haiku 5.5 on October 7 provides a definitive response to the cost-efficiency concerns surrounding the October 15 retirement of Haiku 4.5. By setting pricing at $0.10 per million tokens (MTok) for input and $0.50 per MTok for output, the company has effectively collapsed the small-model pricing floor just eight days before its […]