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Claude Haiku 5.5

Simon Willison · Oct 07, 2026 · Product Launches

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5, matching GPT-6 Luna's price at $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens

“If your workloads fit in 100,000 tokens, Haiku is the same price as Luna and reports higher benchmark scores. Above 100,000 tokens, Luna looks like a much better deal.”

Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5, its new fast/low-cost model, priced at $0.10/$0.50 per million tokens to directly match OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna for workloads under 100k tokens. However, a less generous tokenizer adds a hidden ~25% effective cost increase, and prices jump 5x beyond 100k tokens versus Luna's more modest increase at 272k tokens. The model mandates reasoning (cannot be disabled, defaults to medium), a notable architectural shift from its predecessor Haiku 4.5.

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