Anthropic slashes Claude Haiku 5.5’s price tenfold and adds effort controls to its smallest model
On October 7, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5, its smallest model, at $0.10 per million input tokens — a 90% cut — with effort controls never seen before on this tier. If you run high-volume agentic tasks, this price reshapes the small-model decision.