Claude Haiku 4.5

Fastest, cheapest Claude tier; ideal for latency-sensitive and high-volume use.

Claude Haiku 4.5 strengths

• Low latency
• Cheapest Claude tier
• Good reasoning for its size
• Strong tool use

Pricing & context

Cost guide: a typical call of about 10K input + 2K output tokens costs roughly $0.020 at list prices. Worth modelling against cheaper tiers before committing high-volume traffic.

When to choose Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5 is best for real-time chat, routing, classification, and high-throughput pipelines on a budget. If your workload is more cost-sensitive, weigh it against gpt-oss-120b (≈$0.03 input /1M) first.

Claude Haiku 4.5 FAQ

How much does Claude Haiku 4.5 cost?

Claude Haiku 4.5 is priced at $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $5.00 per 1M output tokens (public API list price), with a 200K tokens context window. A typical call of about 10K input and 2K output tokens costs roughly $0.020.

What is Claude Haiku 4.5 best for?

Claude Haiku 4.5 by Anthropic is best for real-time chat, routing, classification, and high-throughput pipelines on a budget.

How does Claude Haiku 4.5 pricing compare to Amazon Nova 2 Pro?

Claude Haiku 4.5 input costs $1.00 per 1M tokens versus $1.25 for Amazon Nova 2 Pro, roughly 1.3x less expensive on input. Output is $5.00 vs $10.00.

Is Claude Haiku 4.5 multimodal?

Claude Haiku 4.5 supports text, image.