Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5: Faster, Cheaper, More Capable

Anthropic has introduced Claude Haiku 5.5, its fastest and most cost-effective small model to date. Designed for high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks, Haiku 5.5 excels at repetitive workloads like summaries, database queries, and classification requests. It also pairs well with Opus 5.5 and Sonnet 5.5 for coding tasks and is particularly suited for speed-sensitive applications such as live customer support and browser use. The model is priced significantly lower than its predecessor, Haiku 4.5, with cost reductions of up to 75% for certain tasks. Haiku 5.5 also features adjustable effort settings, allowing users to optimize for either cost or intelligence. The model shows improvements in alignment and safety, with more restrictive cybersecurity safeguards compared to Haiku 4.5 but less restrictive than other recent models. Haiku 5.5 is available on major cloud platforms and comes with updates to pricing and API credits for Claude Max and Team subscribers.