Claude Haiku 4.5 pricing in 2026
What one task costs on Claude Haiku 4.5
Per-million-token prices are hard to feel, so here are typical token counts for common jobs priced with Claude Haiku 4.5. Figures are USD at the rates above and exclude prompt caching and batch discounts.
| Task | Tokens (in / out) | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Code review of a 500-line pull request | 60,000 / 4,000 | $0.080 |
| Debug one failing test | 40,000 / 6,000 | $0.070 |
| Generate a landing page in one shot | 3,000 / 30,000 | $0.153 |
| Draft a 1,200-word article | 2,000 / 2,500 | $0.015 |
| Answer a question from a 20-page document | 25,000 / 800 | $0.029 |
| Multi-step agent run (10 tool calls) | 250,000 / 25,000 | $0.375 |
| All of the above, once | $0.722 |
Cheaper at the same or better capability: GLM-5.3 Flash runs the same set of tasks for $0.091 instead of $0.722.
Claude Haiku 4.5 by Anthropic costs $1 per 1M input tokens and $5 per 1M output tokens — about 250.0k tokens per $1. Prices last verified 2026-09-19.
The verdict
Anthropic's fast and cheap tier. At $1 / $5 it's affordable, but an index of 15 puts it well behind the frontier — best for light tasks, retrieval and classification, not hard reasoning.
A concrete example: sending 100,000 input tokens and getting back 20,000 output tokens with Claude Haiku 4.5 costs about $0.20 at current prices.
Who is Claude Haiku 4.5 for?
Haiku 4.5 is Claude's fast, cheap tier. At $1 / $5 per 1M with an index of 15, it's for light tasks — retrieval, classification, quick answers — where you want Claude's reliability without paying for reasoning you don't need.
It's not a reasoning model. For anything that needs real thought, Sonnet 5 or Opus 5 is worth the premium; for pure bulk at the lowest possible cost, DeepSeek Flash or Llama are cheaper still.
Strengths & weaknesses
- Strength: Fast, cheap Claude for light tasks
Claude Haiku 4.5 key facts
| Provider | Claude pricing |
|---|---|
| Input price | $1 / 1M tokens |
| Output price | $5 / 1M tokens |
| Tokens / $1 | 250.0k |
| Intelligence / $1 | 37,500 |
| Context window | 200.0k tokens |
| Tier | fast |
| Intelligence index | 15 / 100 |
| Released | 2025-10-15 |
| Last verified | 2026-09-19 |
What Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers for your budget
For a coding workload, here is roughly what each monthly budget buys:
| Budget | Tokens / month | Months of workload |
|---|---|---|
| $20 | 10.4M | 16.0x |
| $50 | 26.0M | 40.0x |
| $100 | 52.0M | 80.0x |
Other Claude models
How Claude Haiku 4.5 compares to its closest rivals
Rather than repeating the full catalog on every page, here are the three current models nearest to Claude Haiku 4.5 on the intelligence index — and why you might still pick one instead:
- Mistral Medium 3.5 (Mistral) — $1.50 input / $7.50 output per 1M tokens. Why you might pick it: Mistral's open frontier tier.
- Nemotron 3 Super (Nemotron) — $0.08 input / $0.45 output per 1M tokens. Why you might pick it: Near-free input pricing.
- Nemotron 3.5 Lightning (Nemotron) — $0.07 input / $0.20 output per 1M tokens.
Claude Haiku 4.5 — frequently asked questions
How much does Claude Haiku 4.5 cost?
Claude Haiku 4.5 by Anthropic costs $1 per 1M input tokens and $5 per 1M output tokens.
How many tokens per dollar does Claude Haiku 4.5 give you?
On a typical 1:3 input-to-output mix, Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers around 250.0k tokens per dollar — an intelligence-per-dollar score of 37500.
What is Claude Haiku 4.5's context window?
Claude Haiku 4.5 supports a context window of 200.0k tokens.
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 worth it in 2026?
Claude Haiku 4.5 is Claude's fast tier model. Use the AI Intelligence Calculator to see how its value compares to every other model at your budget.