# SiliconANGLE — Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices

- Company: SiliconANGLE (siliconangle.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-07T22:28:07+00:00
- Category: new-model
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: models
- Source: https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/07/anthropic-releases-claude-haiku-5-5-small-model-and-halves-sonnet-5-5-cache-read-prices/
- Record: https://forck.live/items/16472-anthropic-releases-claude-haiku-5-5-small-model-and-halves-sonnet-5-5-cache
- Subject: Reporting
- Models affected: Claude Haiku 5.5, Claude Sonnet 5.5
- Pricing: Haiku 5.5: 10 cents per million input tokens, 50 cents per million output tokens (for prompts up to 100,000 tokens). Sonnet 5.5 cache reads: 10 cents per million tokens (down from 20 cents).

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing it 90% cheaper than Haiku 4.5 for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, at 10 cents per million input tokens and 50 cents per million output tokens. The company also halved cache read prices on Sonnet 5.5 to 10 cents per million tokens. Haiku 5.5 is available on the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/07/anthropic-releases-claude-haiku-5-5-small-model-and-halves-sonnet-5-5-cache-read-prices/:

> Haiku 4.5, released last October , costs $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output. For prompts of up to 100,000 tokens, which Anthropic said covered about 90% of the older model's requests, Haiku 5.5 is 90% cheaper on input and output alike, at 10 cents and 50 cents per million tokens.

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