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Claude Haiku 5.5 brings an effort setting to Anthropic's cheapest tier

Claude Haiku 5.5 at a glance

Claude Haiku 5.5 targets high-volume work such as classification, summaries and live support, starting at $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens.

Current standing

As of

Rank
#14of 43 models

Claude Haiku 5.5 (Max) · 36.5 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index v5.0.1 (opens in a new tab)

Recorded at publication
36 (v5.0.1)

as of

Current leader
Gemini 4 Carbon (Google) · 60

Computed from our daily snapshot; it changes as new models are measured. Claude Haiku 5.5 brings an effort setting to Anthropic's cheapest tier

What changed with Claude Haiku 5.5

Claude Haiku 5.5, model ID claude-haiku-5-5, is available on the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure. Anthropic positions it for summaries, compaction, database queries and classification, and as a fast subagent working under Opus 5.5 or Sonnet 5.5. It is the first Haiku model with an adjustable effort setting.

Pricing is tiered by prompt length: $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens for prompts up to 100k tokens, and $0.50/$2.50 above that. Anthropic reported 72.4% on an offline subset of OSWorld 2.1 and 39.2% on Terminal-Bench 4.0.

Claude Haiku 5.5 benchmarks and pricing

Values are copied from the linked source on the date shown. They are not IA Compa measurements.

Artificial Analysis Intelligence Indexas of · Source for Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index: artificialanalysis.ai (opens in a new tab)
36 (v5.0.1)
Output speedas of · Source for Output speed: artificialanalysis.ai (opens in a new tab)
236 tokens/s
Input price per 1M tokens (prompts up to 100k)as of · Source for Input price per 1M tokens (prompts up to 100k): anthropic.com (opens in a new tab)
$0.10
Output price per 1M tokens (prompts up to 100k)as of · Source for Output price per 1M tokens (prompts up to 100k): anthropic.com (opens in a new tab)
$0.50

How it compares

Other models in the same category that we have covered, using each model's latest recorded value. (Models)

Intelligence indexhigher is better
Output speed (tokens/s)higher is better
Input price (USD per 1M tokens)lower is better
Output price (USD per 1M tokens)lower is better
Context window (tokens)higher is better

Claude Haiku 5.5 reasoning effort

Artificial Analysis tests this model at several reasoning-effort settings. Higher effort usually scores higher but costs more and answers more slowly.

Claude Haiku 5.5 by effort level

Higher effort lets the model think longer. Here is what each setting scores, how fast it writes, and what it costs on Artificial Analysis.

Intelligence Index · higher is better
Cost to run the index · lower is betterHover, tap or focus a point for exact numbers.
Claude Haiku 5.5: Artificial Analysis results by reasoning effort
EffortIntelligence IndexOutput speed (tokens per second)Cost to run the indexBlended price (3:1) (per 1M tokens)Price in / out (per 1M tokens)First token
Max (Claude Haiku 5.5 (max)) · Best: highest effort with a score, used in the leaderboard37236$339$0.20$0.10 / $0.50183 s
Extra high (Claude Haiku 5.5 (xhigh))35235$193$0.20$0.10 / $0.5056 s
High (Claude Haiku 5.5 (high))30218$121$0.20$0.10 / $0.5026 s
Medium (Claude Haiku 5.5 (medium))25219$72.70$0.20$0.10 / $0.5012 s
Low (Claude Haiku 5.5 (low))19217$39.60$0.20$0.10 / $0.509.6 s
Price: $0.10 / $0.50 per 1M input / output tokens at every effort.Artificial Analysis · as of Nov 5, 2026 (opens in a new tab)

Where to compare Claude Haiku 5.5

Independent leaderboards and official resources for comparing this model yourself. Rankings change often; each site shows its own current data.

Why Claude Haiku 5.5 matters for businesses

Artificial Analysis lists 36 on Intelligence Index v5.0.1 at 236 tokens per second. For chat support, lead triage and bulk document tagging, this price point makes per-message AI costs very small.

Sources for this story

  1. Official
  2. Claude Haiku 5.5 model page (opens in a new tab)

    Artificial Analysis · artificialanalysis.ai

    Benchmark

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