Claude Haiku 5.5 API pricing
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.5 per million output tokens. A typical chatbot request (about 1,500 input + 400 output tokens) costs $0.00041, or $0.41 per 1,000 requests.
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| Model | Per month |
|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 5.5 |
≈ = estimated token count: only OpenAI publishes its tokenizer. Claude counts use Anthropic’s published ratios; use the count_tokens API for an exact number.
Claude Haiku 5.5 price per million tokens
USD, Anthropic standard tier. Prices checked on October 28, 2026.
| Token type | Price per 1M | With Batch API |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.1 | $0.05 |
| Cached input | $0.01 | $0.005 |
| Cache write (5 min) | $0.125 | $0.0625 |
| Output | $0.5 | $0.25 |
| Input, prompts above 100K | $0.5 | $0.25 |
| Cached input, above 100K | $0.05 | $0.025 |
| Output, prompts above 100K | $2.5 | $1.25 |
Above 100K prompt tokens the higher rate applies to the whole request.
Model ID: claude-haiku-5-5 · Source: platform.claude.com
What a Claude Haiku 5.5 request costs
| Request | Per request | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Short chat reply 500 input + 200 output tokens | $0.00017 | $0.17 |
| Chatbot turn with context 1,500 input + 400 output tokens | $0.00041 | $0.41 |
| Document Q&A (RAG) 8,000 input + 500 output tokens | $0.0014 | $1.39 |
| Long-document summary 150,000 input + 2,000 output tokens · long-context rate | $0.11 | $112 |
Token counts are measured with GPT's o200k tokenizer and converted for Claude Haiku 5.5 (see below). No caching or batch discount.
Similarly priced models
| Model | Chatbot request | vs Claude Haiku 5.5 |
|---|---|---|
| Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite Google | $0.00032 | −23% |
| GPT-6 Luna OpenAI | $0.00035 | −16% |
| GPT-4o mini OpenAI | $0.00047 | +12% |
| GPT-5.6 Luna OpenAI | $0.00078 | +88% |
| GPT-5.4 nano OpenAI | $0.00080 | +93% |
| DeepSeek Flash DeepSeek | $0.00095 | +130% |
Frequently asked questions
How much does the Claude Haiku 5.5 API cost?
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.1 per million input tokens and $0.5 per million output tokens on Anthropic's standard tier, rising to $0.5 / $2.5 for prompts above 100K tokens. Prices checked on October 28, 2026.
How much does one Claude Haiku 5.5 request cost?
A typical chatbot request with about 1,500 input and 400 output tokens costs about $0.00041, or $0.41 per 1,000 requests. Paste your own prompt into the calculator on this page for an exact estimate.
Does Claude Haiku 5.5 support prompt caching?
Yes. Cached input costs $0.01 per million tokens, 90% less than regular input. Writing to the cache (5-minute lifetime) costs $0.125 per million tokens.
Does Claude Haiku 5.5 have a Batch API discount?
Yes: 50% off for requests sent through the Batch API, which may take up to 24 hours. That makes it $0.05 / $0.25 per million input / output tokens.
How are Claude Haiku 5.5 tokens counted?
Claude Haiku 5.5 uses Anthropic's newer tokenizer, which produces about 30% more tokens than earlier Claude models. We estimate about 1.43× the GPT o200k count for the same text.
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