Anthropic

Claude Haiku 4.5

Anthropic's fast/cheap tier for high-volume calls.

API onlytextimagefileREL 2025-10-15

Compare this model →Verified 2026-06-12

Overview

Claude Haiku 4.5 is the small, fast member of the Claude family at $1/$5 per 1M tokens with a 200K context window. It is built for high-volume, latency-sensitive workloads — classification, extraction, routing, simple chat — where the big models are overkill.

Benchmark scores

Methodology →

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Sources and verification

Intelligence: Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index · checked 2026-06-12
Catalogue and pricing: OpenRouter model record · checked 2026-06-12

Strengths

Low latency
Cheapest Claude
Good instruction following for its size

Trade-offs

200K context — smallest in the family
Not for complex reasoning

Reach for this model when

High-volume pipelines: tagging, extraction, summarisation, simple chat.

Run something like it locally

Local models genuinely compete at this tier — a 14–32B open model on Ollama covers many Haiku-class workloads for free.

Ollama

One-command local LLM runtime.

OPEN SOURCECPU-CAPABLE