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Morning Edition · Tuesday, October 13, 2026Published at 2:13 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic prices Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens, a tenth of Haiku 4.5's rate
Prompts over 100,000 tokens cost five times as much. Reported OSWorld computer-use scores rose from 15.7% to 72.4%, and the release follows Sonnet 5.5, which kept Sonnet 5's price.
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7 and describes it as its fastest and cheapest small model, built for high-volume, cost-sensitive work. For prompts up to 100,000 tokens, it costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per m…
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Frontier Model Price War
Frontier API vendors increasingly compete on strategic price-cutting rather than pure capability, repeatedly launching or repricing models below prevailing rates to grab share and compressing industry inference margins; expect recurring below-rival pricing moves.
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