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Claude Haiku 5.5 API pricing

Prices in USD per million tokens, checked against the official Claude pricing page on 2026-11-10.

ItemPrice per million tokens
Input$0.1
Output (incl. thinking)$0.5
Cache write, 5 minutes$0.125
Cache write, 1 hour$0.2
Cache read$0.01
Batch API input / output$0.05 / $0.25
Prompts over 100,000 tokens: input / output$0.5 / $2.5

Model id: claude-haiku-5-5

What it costs in practice

RequestOne request1,000 requestsOne request, Batch API
Short chat reply
2,000 in / 300 out
$0.00035$0.350$0.00017
Agent turn with tools and history
12,000 in / 800 out
$0.0016$1.60$0.00080
Summarize a 40-page document
30,000 in / 1,000 out
$0.0035$3.50$0.0018

Prompt caching example

An agent sends the same 10,000-token system prompt and tool list on every call, plus 1,000 new tokens, and gets 500 tokens back. Over 20 calls inside a 5-minute cache window:

  • Without caching: $0.027
  • With caching (one cache write, then 19 cache reads): $0.010, about 62% less

Compared with other Claude models

  • Claude Fable 5.2: $8 / $40, about 80× the price of Haiku 5.5 for the same tokens.
  • Claude Opus 5.5: $4 / $20, about 40× the price of Haiku 5.5 for the same tokens.
  • Claude Sonnet 5.5: $2 / $10, about 20× the price of Haiku 5.5 for the same tokens.

Side-by-side pages with worked examples:

Input + output price per million tokens, compared as a simple sum. Your real ratio depends on how many input versus output tokens your workload uses; the calculator compares models on your own numbers.

What a typical app costs on Claude Haiku 5.5: chatbot, support bot, coding agent, document q&a (rag), document summarization, classification & extraction.

Questions

How much does Claude Haiku 5.5 cost?

$0.1 per million input tokens and $0.5 per million output tokens. Prompt cache reads cost $0.01 per million tokens; cache writes cost $0.125 (5-minute) or $0.2 (1-hour) per million tokens.

What is the Claude Haiku 5.5 model id?

Use "claude-haiku-5-5" as the model parameter in the Messages API.

Is there a cheaper way to run Claude Haiku 5.5?

Yes. Batch API requests cost 50% of the normal price, and prompt caching cuts the cost of repeated context. In the caching example on this page, 20 calls that share a 10,000-token prefix cost about 62% less with caching.

Does Claude Haiku 5.5 cost more for long prompts?

Yes. When a prompt is over 100,000 tokens, the whole request is billed at $0.5 input and $2.5 output per million tokens.

Run your own numbers. The free Claude API cost calculator works out cost per request, per user and per month, and the Claude Pricing MCP server lets Claude, Cursor or any MCP client answer the same questions inside your editor.

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