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Anthropic · Released Oct 7, 2026

Claude Haiku 5.5

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...

ReasoningVision
  • Top 13%ProofBench
  • Top 16%OTIS Mock AIME
  • Top 20%CritPt
  • Top 20%Chess Puzzles
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Released
Oct 7 2026
Context window
1M 128K out
Input / 1M tokens
$0.10
Output / 1M tokens
$0.50

Where to run it

5 providers compared

Cheapest: Google, Claude Platform on AWS, Azure +2 more at $0.10 / $0.50 per 1M input / output tokens — 9% less than the priciest option.

ProviderInputOutputCache readContextMax outputUptimevs. best
Googleglobal $0.10 $0.50 $0.011M128K100%24h Cheapest
Claude Platform on AWS $0.10 $0.50 $0.011M128K100%24h Cheapest
Azureglobal $0.10 $0.50 $0.011M128K100%24h Cheapest
Anthropic $0.10 $0.50 $0.011M128K100%24h Cheapest
Amazon Bedrock $0.10 $0.50 $0.011M128K100%24h Cheapest
Googleeurope $0.11 $0.55 $0.0111M128K100%24h +10%
Googleus $0.11 $0.55 $0.0111M128K100%24h +10%
Azureus $0.11 $0.55 $0.0111M128K100%24h +10%
Amazon Bedrockus-east-1 $0.11 $0.55 $0.0111M128K100%24h +10%
Amazon Bedrockeu-west-1 $0.11 $0.55 $0.0111M128K100%24h +10%

Value

Price vs. performance

5 models score higher for the same price or lesson GPQA Diamond, e.g. DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423.
25.3%49.0%72.7%96.4% $0.01$0.10$1.00$10.00$100.00 DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 (DeepSeek) — 89.8% · $0.30/1M in Gemini 4 Argon (Google) — 96.4% · $2.00/1M in Mistral Large 4 (Mistral) — 88.1% · $0.68/1M in GPT-6.1 Sol (OpenAI) — 95.4% · $2.00/1M in GPT-6 Luna (OpenAI) — 90.5% · $0.10/1M in GPT-6 Sol (OpenAI) — 94.3% · $2.00/1M in Grok 4.7 (xAI) — 92.7% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepSeek) — 89.8% · $0.056/1M in GPT-6 Astra (OpenAI) — 95.8% · $10.00/1M in Qwen3.8 Max (0902) (Qwen) — 92.7% · $2.00/1M in Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google) — 95.4% · $0.82/1M in GLM 5.3 Flash (Z.ai) — 90.1% · $0.047/1M in GLM 5.3 (Z.ai) — 90.9% · $0.079/1M in Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google) — 94.8% · $0.75/1M in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (DeepSeek) — 91.7% · $0.66/1M in Grok 4.6 (xAI) — 94.0% · $2.00/1M in DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 (DeepSeek) — 91.0% · $0.44/1M in Qwen3.7 Flash (Qwen) — 82.3% · $0.03/1M in Gemini 3.6 Flash (Google) — 94.1% · $0.75/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite (Google) — 83.3% · $0.30/1M in Kimi K3 (Moonshot AI) — 93.1% · $0.24/1M in GPT-5.6 Luna (OpenAI) — 91.6% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.6 Terra (OpenAI) — 93.3% · $2.00/1M in GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI) — 93.5% · $4.00/1M in Grok 4.5 (xAI) — 93.4% · $2.00/1M in GLM 5.2 (Z.ai) — 91.9% · $0.62/1M in Kimi K2.7 Code (Moonshot AI) — 87.9% · $0.67/1M in Qwen3.7 Plus (Qwen) — 87.9% · $0.32/1M in MiniMax M3 (MiniMax) — 90.9% · $0.30/1M in Qwen3.7 Max (Qwen) — 90.9% · $1.48/1M in Gemini 3.5 Flash (Google) — 92.8% · $1.50/1M in Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite (Google) — 81.8% · $0.25/1M in Grok 4.3 (xAI) — 88.8% · $1.25/1M in Qwen3.5 Plus 2026-04-20 (Qwen) — 84.9% · $0.30/1M in Qwen3.6 Flash (Qwen) — 83.3% · $0.19/1M in Qwen3.6 35B A3B (Qwen) — 84.9% · $0.10/1M in Qwen3.6 27B (Qwen) — 85.9% · $0.25/1M in GPT-5.5 (OpenAI) — 90.7% · $5.00/1M in DeepSeek V4 Pro 0423 (DeepSeek) — 91.7% · $0.95/1M in DeepSeek V4 Flash 0423 (DeepSeek) — 91.0% · $0.091/1M in Kimi K2.6 (Moonshot AI) — 90.8% · $0.65/1M in GLM 5.1 (Z.ai) — 89.9% · $0.97/1M in Gemma 4 26B A4B (Google) — 73.2% · $0.09/1M in Gemma 4 31B (Google) — 75.8% · $0.20/1M in Qwen3.6 Plus (Qwen) — 88.4% · $0.33/1M in GPT-5.4 Nano (OpenAI) — 78.5% · $0.20/1M in GPT-5.4 Mini (OpenAI) — 86.9% · $0.75/1M in Mistral Small 4 (Mistral) — 47.5% · $0.15/1M in Qwen3.5-9B (Qwen) — 79.0% · $0.10/1M in GPT-5.4 Pro (OpenAI) — 94.6% · $30.00/1M in GPT-5.4 (OpenAI) — 93.3% · $2.50/1M in Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite Preview (Google) — 81.8% · $0.25/1M in Qwen3.5-35B-A3B (Qwen) — 83.5% · $0.15/1M in Gemini 3.1 Pro Preview (Google) — 94.4% · $2.00/1M in Qwen3.5 397B A17B (Qwen) — 86.4% · $0.39/1M in GLM 5 (Z.ai) — 87.8% · $0.60/1M in GLM 4.7 Flash (Z.ai) — 60.5% · $0.061/1M in GLM 4.7 (Z.ai) — 83.3% · $0.54/1M in Gemini 3 Flash Preview (Google) — 89.4% · $0.50/1M in GPT-5.2 (OpenAI) — 91.4% · $1.75/1M in Ministral 3 8B 2512 (Mistral) — 27.2% · $0.15/1M in Ministral 3 3B 2512 (Mistral) — 25.3% · $0.10/1M in Mistral Large 3 2512 (Mistral) — 51.3% · $0.50/1M in GPT-5.1 (OpenAI) — 87.6% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5 (OpenAI) — 86.2% · $1.25/1M in GPT-5 Mini (OpenAI) — 75.0% · $0.25/1M in GPT-5 Nano (OpenAI) — 69.4% · $0.05/1M in gpt-oss-120b (OpenAI) — 75.8% · $0.15/1M in gpt-oss-20b (OpenAI) — 60.8% · $0.018/1M in Qwen3 30B A3B Instruct 2507 (Qwen) — 55.6% · $0.09/1M in Qwen3 235B A22B Thinking 2507 (Qwen) — 80.0% · $0.45/1M in Qwen3 235B A22B Instruct 2507 (Qwen) — 70.7% · $0.09/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro (Google) — 85.3% · $1.25/1M in Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview 06-05 (Google) — 85.3% · $1.25/1M in R1 0528 (DeepSeek) — 76.3% · $0.50/1M in Qwen3 30B A3B (Qwen) — 61.7% · $0.12/1M in Qwen3 14B (Qwen) — 63.8% · $0.12/1M in Qwen3 32B (Qwen) — 65.7% · $0.08/1M in Claude Sonnet 5.5 (Anthropic) — 95.6% · $2.00/1M in Claude Opus 5.5 (Anthropic) — 90.6% · $4.00/1M in Claude Opus 5 (Anthropic) — 93.9% · $5.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 5 (Anthropic) — 90.5% · $2.00/1M in Claude Fable 5 (Anthropic) — 85.9% · $10.00/1M in Claude Opus 4.8 (Anthropic) — 91.0% · $5.00/1M in Claude Opus 4.7 (Anthropic) — 90.1% · $5.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.6 (Anthropic) — 87.4% · $3.00/1M in Claude Opus 4.6 (Anthropic) — 90.5% · $5.00/1M in Claude Opus 4.5 (Anthropic) — 86.1% · $5.00/1M in Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) — 71.2% · $1.00/1M in Claude Sonnet 4.5 (Anthropic) — 82.3% · $3.00/1M in Claude Opus 4.1 (Anthropic) — 77.3% · $15.00/1M in Claude Haiku 5.5 (Anthropic) — 89.6% · $0.10/1M in Claude Haiku 5.5

Claude Haiku 5.5 Other Anthropic Other labs Value frontier · GPQA Diamond vs. input price per 1M tokens (log scale) · Drag to pan, pinch or Ctrl + scroll to zoom, double-click to zoom in.

Benchmarks

21 benchmark scores

BenchmarkScoreRankLeader
FrontierSWESoftware engineering · Ultra-long-horizon engineering tasks with a 20-hour budget each 43.8% #8of 19 GPT-6 Astra65.5%
CursorBenchSoftware engineering · Ambiguous multi-file tasks drawn from real Cursor sessions 48.4% #5of 16 Claude Opus 5.557.8%
FrontierCodeSoftware engineering · Mergeable fixes for hard open-source issues 46.4% #14of 41 Claude Opus 5.554.6%
SciCodeSoftware engineering · Research-coding problems from the natural sciences 55.0% #25of 93 Claude Opus 5.566.9%
WeirdML v3Software engineering · Unfamiliar ML and data tasks with vague goals 11.7% #11of 22 GPT-6 Astra42.2%
APEX-AgentsAgents & computer use · Long professional tasks in banking, consulting and law 56.1% #17of 51 Gemini 4 Argon82.4%
Vending-Bench 2Agents & computer use · Run a simulated vending business for a year (final balance) $3,602 #39of 61 GPT-6 Astra$15,515
SimpleQA VerifiedWriting & content · Factual accuracy on 1,000 short questions 23.8% #59of 66 Gemini 4 Argon76.0%
Blueprint-Bench 2Design & visual · Turn apartment photos into 2D floor plans 33.0% #13of 32 Gemini 4 Argon54.4%
Furniture AssemblyDesign & visual · Spot mistakes in photos of IKEA builds 47.5% #11of 34 Claude Opus 5.583.3%
GPQA DiamondReasoning & knowledge · PhD-level biology, chemistry and physics questions 89.6% #43of 92 Gemini 4 Argon96.4%
Humanity's Last ExamReasoning & knowledge · Expert questions across 100+ subjects 30.1% #11of 23 GPT-6 Astra54.8%
ARC-AGI-2Reasoning & knowledge · Few-shot abstract reasoning on grid puzzles 61.3% #30of 63 GPT-6 Astra95.0%
ARC-AGI-1Reasoning & knowledge · Pattern induction from input–output examples 89.0% #32of 63 Gemini 4 Argon98.5%
CritPtReasoning & knowledge · Open-ended, research-level physics problems 22.6% #19of 96 GPT-5.6 Sol32.3%
Chess PuzzlesReasoning & knowledge · Find the single best move in 100 new puzzles 55.0% #14of 70 GPT-6 Astra76.0%
LMCAReasoning & knowledge · Judge the quality of conceptual arguments like experts 51.1% #23of 96 Claude Sonnet 5.568.3%
FrontierMathMaths · Expert-written problems, undergrad to early research (tiers 1–3) 75.1% #19of 72 GPT-6.1 Sol93.7%
FrontierMath Tier 4Maths · Exceptionally hard research-level problems 46.3% #19of 62 GPT-6.1 Sol100.0%
ProofBenchMaths · Graduate maths proofs verified in Lean 4 89.0% #9of 70 Claude Sonnet 5.5100.0%
OTIS Mock AIMEMaths · Competition-style problems harder than MATH Level 5 98.9% #14of 90 Gemini 4 Argon100.0%

Specs

Details

Model ID
anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5
Developer
Anthropic
Release date
Oct 7, 2026 ·
Context window
1,000,000 tokens
Max output
128,000 tokens
API price
$0.10 / $0.50 per 1M input / output tokens
Providers
5
Input types
text, image, file
Reasoning
Yes
Tool calling
Yes
Open weights
No
Free tier
No

Release date, prices and providers from OpenRouter's catalog; buying directly from a provider can cost a little differently. Uptime is the share of OpenRouter requests each provider served over the last day. Benchmark scores are the best result per benchmark from Epoch AI, licensed CC BY 4.0. Rank counts every model tracked here with a score.