Anthropic launches faster, cheaper Claude Haiku 5.5

2026-10-07

Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, its most economical and swift small model, suitable for tasks like summarization and classification. This model is significantly cheaper than its predecessor and accessible via AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure. Anthropic also reduced cache read costs for Claude Sonnet 5.5 and offered monthly credits for specific subscribers.