[Anthropic Releases Claude Haiku 5.5, Reducing Average Operating Costs by Approximately 75% Compared to the Previous Generation] Odaily Planet Daily News: Anthropic has announced the launch of Claude Haiku 5.5, positioned as its most cost-effective, fastest, and most capable small-scale model to date. It is primarily designed for high-call-volume scenarios such as summarization, context compression, database queries, classification, sub-agents, real-time customer service, and browser operations. Haiku 5.5 also becomes the first model in the Haiku series to support adjustable inference intensity. In terms of pricing, the average operating cost of Haiku 5.5 is approximately 75% lower than Haiku 4.5. The input and output prices for up to 100,000 tokens are $0.10 per million tokens and $0.50 per million tokens, respectively. Additionally, Anthropic has reduced the cache read price for Sonnet 5.5 by 50%, which is expected to lower the cost of most agent tasks by approximately 20%. Furthermore, Anthropic will provide monthly API credits of $100, $200, and up to $500 to Max 5x, Max 20x, and Team users, respectively.