[AINews] Claude Haiku 5.5 — better than GPT-6 Luna at the same pricing
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, 75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5, matching GPT-6 Luna pricing
“the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we've ever released”
Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, its first Haiku-tier update in roughly a year, priced to compete directly with OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna at approximately 75% lower cost than its predecessor. The launch was accompanied by a Sonnet 5.5 price cut (cache reads halved) and new API credits bundled into Max and Team subscription tiers. Anthropic positions Haiku 5.5 as a high-volume subagent paired with Opus or Sonnet for cost-sensitive tasks like summaries, compactions, and database queries.