[Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5 with Average Cost Reduced by Approximately 75%] Jin10 News, October 8 – Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 5.5, describing it as the company's fastest and most capable small-scale model to date. It is primarily designed for high-frequency, cost-sensitive scenarios such as summarization, classification, database queries, customer service, browser operations, and AI agent sub-tasks. The average operating cost of Haiku 5.5 is approximately 75% lower than that of Haiku 4.5. The input and output pricing for requests within 100,000 tokens are $0.1 and $0.5 per million tokens, respectively. For the first time in the Haiku series, adjustable inference intensity has been introduced. At the same time, Anthropic has halved the cache read price for Sonnet 5.5 to $0.1 per million tokens, claiming it can reduce the cost of most agent tasks by about 20%. Haiku 5.5 is now available on the Claude Platform, AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.