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Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 output up to 100,000 tokens, cutting its price 10x versus Haiku 4.5 and matching GPT-6 Luna while posting higher benchmark scores.

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Claude Haiku 5.5 Cuts Price 10x to Match GPT-6 Luna

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What is Claude Haiku 5.5?

It is Anthropic's fast, low-cost model released on October 7, 2026, priced at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 output up to 100,000 tokens, with multiple reasoning effort levels.

How does Haiku 5.5 compare to GPT-6 Luna?

Pricing is identical up to 100,000 tokens and Haiku reports higher benchmark scores. Above 100,000 tokens Haiku's price rises 5x, while Luna's increases more modestly at 272,000 tokens.

Do Claude subscribers get API credits?

Yes. Max 5x users get $100 monthly, Max 20x get $200, and Team subscribers receive up to $500 pooled across users, but credits do not roll over.

Should MENA teams adopt Haiku 5.5 now?

For workloads under 100,000 tokens it is a strong economic choice for Arabic-language agents and customer service. For very long contexts, Luna may be cheaper.

Source: Simon Willison (LLM & tools)

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