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Anthropic Launches Claude Haiku 5.5 With 75% Price Cut and Dramatic Computer-Use Gains

October 7, 2026 at 18:46 EDT

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Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, a small language model priced at approximately 75% below its predecessor while delivering substantial leaps in computer-use capabilities and performance across multiple benchmarks. The model became available on October 7, 2026, across the Claude Platform, Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.

OCTOBER 7, 2026 • ANTHROPIC

Haiku 5.5: 75% Cheaper, 4× Better at Computer Use

Anthropic's new small model slashes pricing while dramatically improving autonomous task performance on the OSWorld benchmark.

75%

Average cost reduction

$0.10

Input per M tokens

72.4%

OSWorld 2.1 score

Computer-Use Performance Leap

15.7%

Haiku 4.5

→

72.4%

Haiku 5.5

PRICING STRUCTURE

Up to 100K tokens

Input: $0.10/M

Output: $0.50/M

Over 100K tokens

Input: $0.50/M

Output: $2.50/M

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