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Claude 3.5 Haiku vs Claude Haiku 4.5

List-price comparison · Claude 3.5 Haiku details · Claude Haiku 4.5 details

For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Claude 3.5 Haiku costs 20% less $256.00/mo vs $320.00/mo.

 Claude 3.5 HaikuClaude Haiku 4.5
Input / 1M tokens$0.800$1.00
Output / 1M tokens$4.00$5.00
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.0026$0.0032
Context window200k tokens200k tokens
Max output8,192 tokens64k tokens
TierBalancedFlash
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic

Projected monthly cost

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Claude 3.5 Haiku

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Claude Haiku 4.5

Very low latency for high-volume, simple tasks — classification, short summaries, and lightweight chat where response time matters more than depth.

Noticeably weaker on multi-step reasoning and long-context synthesis; pairing with a larger model for escalation is common.

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Vendor list rates · per-request examples assume 1,200 input + 400 output tokens.