Claude Haiku 4.5 API Pricing
Anthropic · Mid-tier · Proprietary · released 2025-10. Prices in USD per 1 million tokens. Data snapshot: 2026-09-28.
Claude Haiku 4.5 has held the same list price since 2026-08-15 and is the 66th cheapest of 108 Mid-tier models. None of its 4 hosts undercuts the price quoted here. It is rated a stable release but does not meet all four criteria of the FinOps Friendly badge.
- 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: 1414 (as of 2026-09-25)
- 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
Claude Haiku 4.5 market position
On blended price ($3.80 per 1M tokens at 30% input, 70% output) it is cheaper than 39% of Mid-tier models: 66th cheapest of 108. Across every category it is cheaper than 26% of priced text models in the catalogue: 208th cheapest of 281. Its Arena ELO of 1414 ranks 46th of the 68 models that carry one, above 33% of them.
Claude Haiku 4.5 licence, size and capabilities
Claude Haiku 4.5 is recorded here as proprietary: access is through an API, priced by the token. Its parameter count is not published. Listed capabilities: Text, Vision, Reasoning, Code, Agents. Filling its 200K context window once costs $0.20 in input tokens at list price.
Monthly cost at 100K requests, by business use case
From the after-discounts figure (prompt caching on the cached input share, batch API for async workloads, only where the provider publishes those rates), which assumes you implement both, to the list price. One figure means no discount is published.
| Use case | Tokens (in/out) | Monthly (after discounts – list) |
|---|---|---|
| Support Ticket | 1,500 / 500 | $324 – $400 |
| Knowledge Q&A | 2,000 / 800 | $481 – $600 |
| Meeting Summary | 10,000 / 1,200 | $775 – $1.6K |
| Marketing Content | 2,500 / 1,800 | $1.1K |
| Coding Task | 3,000 / 2,000 | $1.2K – $1.3K |
| Invoice Processing | 1,500 / 600 | $214 – $450 |
| Call Summary | 2,000 / 700 | $270 – $550 |
| Agent Workflow | 6,000 / 3,000 | $1.7K – $2.1K |
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 2026-09-28 via OpenRouter — negotiated rates, committed-use discounts and provisioned capacity are not shown.
The price we publish is already the cheapest of the 4 hosts: Azure at $1.00 input / $5.00 output per 1M tokens. All of them charge within 10% of one another.
| 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 |
Claude Haiku 4.5 price history
Claude Haiku 4.5 has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $1.00 input / $5.00 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
Alternatives to Claude Haiku 4.5
- Next cheaper Mid-tier model: Qwen3.7 Max (Alibaba) at $3.54 blended, 7% less.
- Next more expensive: Grok 4.7 (xAI) at $3.84 blended, 1% more.
The nearest Mid-tier models on Arena ELO, each with its blended price and score difference against Claude Haiku 4.5.
- GPT-4.1 (OpenAI) — $2.00 in / $8.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1415: 63% more expensive, 1 ELO point higher
- Mistral Large (Mistral) — $2.00 in / $6.00 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1413: 26% more expensive, 1 ELO point lower
- Qwen3.5-122B-A10B (Alibaba) — $0.26 in / $2.08 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1416: 60% cheaper, 2 ELO points higher
- Kimi K2 0711 (Moonshot) — $0.57 in / $2.30 out per 1M, Arena ELO 1419: 53% cheaper, 5 ELO points higher
- Cheapest within 15 Arena points: DeepSeek V3.2 (DeepSeek), 90% cheaper, 11 ELO points higher, out of 8 models in that band.
- Highest Arena ELO within 20% of this price: GLM 5.3 (Zhipu), 8% cheaper, 66 ELO points higher, out of 6 models in that price band.
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.
- Has the price of Claude Haiku 4.5 changed?
- Claude Haiku 4.5 has been in our daily price archive since tracking began on 2026-08-15, when it listed at $1.00 input / $5.00 output per 1M tokens. No list price change since tracking began on 2026-08-15. Last checked against the 2026-09-28 snapshot.
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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