Claude Haiku 4.5 API Pricing
Anthropic · Mid-tier · Proprietary · released 2025-10. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-06.
- Input: $1.00 per 1M tokens
- Output: $5.00 per 1M tokens
- Batch API (input/output): $0.50 / $2.50
- Prompt-cache read: $0.10
- Context window: 200K
- Arena ELO: 1413 (as of 2026-09-01)
- Available on: Direct API, AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex, OpenRouter (curated by hand, verify with the provider)
- AWS Bedrock regions: ap-northeast-1, ap-northeast-3, ap-southeast-1, eu-central-1, eu-north-1, eu-south-1, eu-south-2, eu-west-1, eu-west-3, us-east-1, us-east-2, us-west-2
Cost per request by business use case
List price vs optimized (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates).
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Cost/req (list) | Cost/req (optimized) | Monthly @100K req |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $0.0040 | $0.0032 | $319 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $0.0060 | $0.0047 | $474 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $0.016 | $0.0076 | $760 |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $0.011 | $0.011 | $1.1K |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $0.013 | $0.012 | $1.2K |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $0.0045 | $0.0021 | $207 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $0.0055 | $0.0027 | $267 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $0.021 | $0.017 | $1.7K |
Claude Haiku 4.5 pricing by host
A host is a company that runs the model and sells it by the token — the lab that made it, a cloud platform like Amazon Bedrock, Azure or Vertex, or an independent provider. One model, several sellers, and often several prices. This model is sold by 4 different hosts. The price quoted above is the one we publish so that models stay comparable; it is not necessarily the cheapest way to buy this model. List prices as published on 2026-09-06 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
| Host | Input $/1M | Output $/1M |
|---|---|---|
| Azure (the price shown above) | $1.00 | $5.00 |
| Amazon Bedrock (the price shown above) | $1.00 | $5.00 |
| Google (the price shown above) | $1.00 | $5.00 |
| Anthropic (the price shown above) | $1.00 | $5.00 |
Models comparable to Claude Haiku 4.5
The nearest Mid-tier models on Arena ELO, so a substitution is compared on quality as well as price.
- GPT-4.1 (OpenAI) — $2.00 in / $8.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1414
- Mistral Large (Mistral) — $2.00 in / $6.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1414
- Qwen3.5-122B-A10B (Alibaba) — $0.29 in / $2.40 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1417
- Kimi K2 0711 (Moonshot) — $0.57 in / $2.30 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1418
Claude Haiku 4.5 head to head
Common questions about Claude Haiku 4.5 pricing
- How much does Claude Haiku 4.5 cost?
- Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1.00 per million input tokens and $5.00 per million output tokens on the API.
- Does Claude Haiku 4.5 offer batch or cached pricing?
- Yes. Batch API pricing is $0.50/M input and $2.50/M output. Prompt-cache reads cost $0.10/M.
- What would Claude Haiku 4.5 cost per month?
- For a support-ticket workload (1,500 input + 500 output tokens per request) at 100K requests/month, Claude Haiku 4.5 costs about $400 at list prices.
These are list prices: real cost also depends on caching, batching, negotiated discounts, marketplace agreements, and existing contracts. Get a FinOps review from OptimNow or compare all models.
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