Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) API Pricing
Anthropic · context window 1M · prices updated 2026-10-14
Where Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) sits on price
At $0.25 per million output tokens, Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) is a budget tier model — 8.8× cheaper than the median output price of $2.20, which puts it in the cheapest 10% of everything we track. It is the cheapest of the 31 Anthropic models we track. Output costs 5.0× input, the usual spread — trim both, starting with the answer length.
Cached input is 90% cheaper. On an input-heavy workload you need roughly a 28% cache-hit rate to take 25% off the input line — reachable for chatbots and agents that resend the same system prompt and history.
What real workloads cost on Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)
These three workloads are the ones teams actually run on a budget-priced model — a $0.25/1M model is not bought for the same job as one ten times the price.
| Workload | Per request | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill. | $0 | $150 |
| Small app — 1K requests/day (500 in / 150 out) The baseline most side projects actually run at. | $0.0001 | $1.88 |
| Long-context analysis — 200 runs/day (250K in / 4K out) Only possible on large-context models; input cost is nearly the whole bill. | $0.0135 | $81.00 |
Model your exact traffic in the API cost calculator — it preloads Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) with caching and batch options.
Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) price history
Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)'s price has not moved since we began tracking it on Oct 8, 2026 — 6 days of stability in a market where 93 of the 364 models we track have repriced over the same period. Anthropic's lineup has held steady across the board.
Change-points from our daily price snapshots (tracking since Oct 8, 2026; intraday moves between snapshots are not captured).
Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) vs Mistral Small 3.2 24B
The closest-priced alternative from another vendor is Mistral Small 3.2 24B (Mistral) — priced within a rounding error on output, with $0.0438 more per million input tokens. When two models land this close on price, the decision is quality on your own workload, not the price sheet: run 50 real requests through both and compare.
See Mistral Small 3.2 24B pricing →Cheaper alternatives
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Frequently asked questions
› How much does the Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) API cost?
Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) costs $0.05 per million input tokens and $0.25 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.005 per million (90% cheaper). That works out to roughly 4,000,000 output tokens per dollar.
› What does the high-volume classification workload cost on Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)?
High-volume classification — 200K requests/day (400 in / 20 out) costs about $0 per request and $150 per month on Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch). Short output, huge volume: the input price dominates the bill.
› What does it cost to fill Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch)'s 1M context window?
Sending 1M of input in a single request costs $0.05 at $0.05 per million tokens — before any output. With prompt caching that same fill drops to about $0.005 on repeat requests. This is why large context windows are cheap to advertise and expensive to actually use.
› Is Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) worth the price?
Claude Haiku 5.5 (batch) is in the cheapest end of the market — cheaper than 90% of the models we track. At this price the question is not cost but capability: it is a good fit for classification, extraction, routing and bulk summarisation, and a poor fit for multi-step reasoning where a wrong answer costs more than the tokens saved.