Haiku 5.5 at ten cents per million

wildanchor

New Haiku is out, 0.10 dollar per million input tokens...

https://www.marktechpost.com/2026/10/07/anthropic-releases-claude-haiku-5-5-a-small-model-with-1m-context-priced-at-0-10-per-million-input-tokens/

This is the bit that matters for me. The product text batches for clients go from a line on the invoice to basically nothing. I'd switch the batch jobs this week!

Rickey

Price was never my problem. On the LMS the course descriptions come back almost right every time, and then I spend twenty minutes per batch reading them, because a wrong dog breed or a wrong price in a course blurb goes straight to the members...

Does cheaper change that on your end, or do you still check every line?

Mattia

wildanchor wrote
I'd switch the batch jobs this week!

Run one batch on it before you switch all of them. i did that yesterday for the necklace client. Same 300 product prompt i use every week and the new tokenizer counted it at about 15 percent more tokens than the old Haiku did for the exact same text.

And this is the bit the headline skips: the ten cents is for prompts under 100K tokens, above that the input price jumps. For a short batch it's nothing, for a whole catalog in one prompt it's not a tenth of a dollar any more.

wildanchor

I ran it today on 200 descriptions for the sim racing shop, one product per call, nothing fancy.

You're right on the tokenizer. Same text, more tokens. I got around 12 percent more than the old one in the usage numbers.

Still cheap though. For a short product text the whole batch of 200 was under one cent in input and that's the case where the 100K jump never comes close because nobody puts a short description in a prompt that long.

I'm using it already for that job. For the long catalog ones I stay on the old setup.

evan

Good news for the shop then.

The product text that says "crafted for the discerning enthusiast" now costs a tenth of what it did.

Same text, new invoice.

In your case you need to read 200 descriptions either way, the model just bills less for making you do it.

Progress.

N3onc0m3t

I generated 80 product texts for a client in March. Cost nothing. they sat in a draft folder for five weeks because the owner never signed them off, so i'm pretty sure price isn't the slow part here.