Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices
Source: SiliconANGLE (opens in a new tab) · Duncan Riley
Intel Summary
Anthropic has launched Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing the small model at roughly one-quarter of the operating cost of Haiku 4.5. The company has also reduced cache read pricing for Claude Sonnet 5.5 by 50 percent following the earlier release of Opus 5.5.
Why It Matters
Substantial price reductions for small-model inference and prompt caching directly lower operating expenses for developers and enterprises running high-volume Claude workloads, altering cost-performance calculations across model tiers.
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