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Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, cuts small-model API prices ~75%VentureBeat ties Haiku 5.5 pricing to GPT-6 Luna
4 Oct 7 2:22 PM · 6d ago · 1 article · 5 comments · 2 sources · development 4 of 4
Coverage frames the new price cut as bringing Haiku 5.5's API pricing in line with OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna, with one outlet instead arguing the price matches Luna's rather than undercutting it.
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6 outlets Anthropic's New Claude Haiku 5.5 Cuts AI Token Prices Up to 90%; Beats OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna
first by WinBuzzer, 6d ago · also Neowin, The Decoder, Simon Willison, Simon Willison's Weblog, TechRepublic
5 more headlines
- Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with aggressive pricing, but it consumes far more tokens Neowin · 6d ago
- Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 Matches GPT-6 Luna at 10 Cents per Million Input Tokens Implicator.ai · 6d ago
- Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives with massive price cuts proving the AI pricing arms race is far from over The Decoder · 6d ago
- Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 Simon Willison · 6d ago
- Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 With API Prices Starting at $0.10 TechRepublic · 4d ago
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first by iClarified, 6d ago · also TestingCatalog AI News, VentureBeat
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- Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 at lower API prices TestingCatalog AI News · 6d ago
- Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5 with 90% API price reduction, matching GPT-6 Luna VentureBeat · 6d ago
What people said 5 voices · verbatim
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Haiku 5.5 is noticeably smarter than GPT-6 Luna, so I can see their pricing strategy here.For a while Anthropic has lacked a cost effective “cheap” LLM for summarisation, compacting, RAG helpers, etc.These ‘ephemeral’ workloads are often under 100k tokens, or can be structured to be under 100k.In some coding benchmarks, Haiku 5.5 beats Sonnet 5!…
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> Second, this week, we’ll roll out a new monthly API credit to all Max and Team subscribers for use on the Claude Platform. Max 5x users will get $100 in credits per month, Max 20x users will get $200, and Team subscribers will receive up to $500, pooled across their usersThis is a very big benefit for me. I can now ship actual ai enhanced…
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There's also a tokenizer efficiency difference: modern Claude's 100K tokens are about ~60-65K modern GPT tokens, so in reality the Luna cutoff is much further away than the Haiku one.You can test with Anthropic's count_tokens endpoint or with
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The monthly API credits for Max plan seems fantastic, especially considering Haiku pricing. Being able to actually use my Claude plan for other harnesses and use-cases on top of regular CC usage is everything I wanted.Anthropic has really been doing all the right things in the past few weeks, while OpenAI continues to fumble the bag.
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It's actually existing flat per-token pricing that is weird.Neither encode nor decode are linear in compute, so providers need to price for average expected length.This is just getting closer to the true cost of generating tokens.
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