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Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) vs Claude Haiku 4.5

List-price comparison · Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast) details · Claude Haiku 4.5 details

For a typical workload (100,000 requests / mo), Claude Haiku 4.5 costs 97% less $320.00/mo vs $9,600.00/mo.

 Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)Claude Haiku 4.5
Input / 1M tokens$30.00$1.00
Output / 1M tokens$150.00$5.00
Typical request (1,200 in + 400 out)$0.096$0.0032
Context window1M tokens200k tokens
Max output128k tokens64k tokens
TierFlagshipFlash
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic

Projected monthly cost

Rows open both models in the calculator — adjust volume and token counts there.

Claude Opus 4.6 (Fast)

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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.