Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices

Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is halving what it charges for cache reads on that model. Two weeks after Opus 5.5 launched Sept. 22, Haiku 5.5 makes three models in the 5.5 generation. Anthropic is aiming it at repetitive work. High-volume summaries and classification are the main target, and coding teams can also use the model as a subagent that Opus 5.5 or Sonnet 5.5 hands smaller tasks to.

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