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# Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 — price, capability and what beats it · Undominated.ai

> Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5: $1.00/M in, $5.00/M out. Independent capability scores, context-tier pricing, and the models that are both better and cheaper.

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# Claude Haiku 4.5

Anthropic · released 2025-10-15 · proprietary

 $2.00 per million tokens, balanced Balanced Summarise Chat Code gen Agentic

## Gemini 3.7 Flash is both better and cheaper.

It scores **+26.1** higher and costs **63% less** ($0.750/M against $2.00/M) on this workload — and it does everything this model does.

[DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731](/models/deepseek__deepseek-v4-flash-0731) is cheaper still (95% less) but drops no image, file input.

The same model via **batch** is 50% cheaper ($1.00/M) — same weights, different latency.

## Our take

 editorial — not a measurement

The cheap Anthropic tier at $1/$5, and the odd one out in the current lineup — it still uses extended thinking rather than adaptive thinking, and it is capped at a 200k context and 64k output while every 4.6-and-later model gets 1M. That makes it a classification and routing model, not a small general assistant. At $1 input it is roughly 20x the price of the cheapest capable open-weight models, so it only makes sense when you specifically want Anthropic's safety behaviour and refusal profile at low cost.

### Strengths

 - $1/$5 with Anthropic's alignment and tool-use behaviour
- Fastest Claude latency profile
- Full caching and 50% batch discount support

### Weaknesses

 - 200k context and 64k output — a fifth of the current generation
- Extended thinking rather than adaptive thinking
- Far more expensive than equivalent open-weight small models
- Older knowledge cutoff (training data to Jul 2025)

### Reach for it when

 - Classification and extraction
- Router / triage models in front of a larger model
- High-volume support ticket handling

### Avoid it if

 - You need long context
- Price per token is the deciding factor

Sources: platform.claude.com · platform.claude.com

### Every price dimension

| Input | $1.00 /M |
| --- | --- |
| Output | $5.00 /M |
| Cached input | $0.100 /M |
| Cache write | $1.25 /M |
| Cache write 1h | $2.00 /M |
| Web search | $0.01 /call |
| Batch discount | 50% |

### Independent scores

| Intelligence | 29.9 |
| --- | --- |
| Coding | 43.9 |
| Agentic | 16.5 |

Sources are listed separately rather than averaged. Across the 62 models both have scored they correlate at r = 0.806 — close agreement overall, but four models rank very differently between them, and a blended score would hide exactly those.

### Capability

| Context window | 200K |
| --- | --- |
| Max output | 64K |
| Input modes | text, image, file |
| Tool use | yes |
| Reasoning | optional |
| Open weights | no |

### Provenance

| Price source | openrouter.ai |
| --- | --- |
| Fetched | 2026-08-24 |
| Quality data | verified |
| Cross-checked | vendor page |

Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s fastest and most efficient model, delivering near-frontier intelligence at a fraction of the cost and latency of larger Claude models. Matching Claude Sonnet 4’s performance...