THE TICKER · HEAD-TO-HEAD · CHECKED DAILY · LAST CHANGE 2026-10-13
CLAUDE HAIKU 5.5 VS CLAUDE HAIKU 4.5
Anthropic vs Anthropic, in USD per million tokens, cross-checked daily against the public pricing dataset. Same jobs, both meters running.
Claude Haiku 4.5 costs 10.0x more than Claude Haiku 5.5 for the same job — a 1,000-token prompt with a 3,000-token reply runs $0.02 vs $0.0016. At 1,000 runs a day, that gap is $432.00 a month for identical traffic.
SIDE BY SIDE
| Claude Haiku 5.5 → | Claude Haiku 4.5 → | |
|---|---|---|
| Vendor | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Input / MTok | $0.100 | $1.00 |
| Output / MTok | $0.500 | $5.00 |
| Output multiple | 5.0x | 5.0x |
| 1K prompt + 3K reply | $0.0016 | $0.02 |
SAME JOB, BOTH BILLS
| Scenario | Claude Haiku 5.5 | Claude Haiku 4.5 | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| A typical prompt | $0.0005 | $0.0048 | 10.0x |
| A 20-turn conversation | $0.0024 | $0.02 | 10.0x |
| Summarizing a 10-page document | $0.0024 | $0.02 | 10.0x |
| One agent run | $0.0062 | $0.06 | 10.0x |
| A code review request | $0.0020 | $0.02 | 10.0x |
Output sizes use the same editorial ratios as the Burn Calculator. Estimates, not invoices — and price is not a benchmark: the cheaper model is only a bargain if it does the job.
SETTLE IT WITH YOUR OWN PROMPT
Paste a real prompt into the Burn Calculator and see what it costs on Claude Haiku 5.5, Claude Haiku 4.5 and the other 34 models on the board — plus how much of it is waste either way.