model · Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic's fast, low-cost tier — near-frontier quality for well-scoped, high-frequency work at $1 / $5 per 1M tokens. It is the model you route the bulk of cheap, repetitive calls to (classification, extraction, short drafts, routing) while reserving Opus or Sonnet for the genuinely hard steps — the cost-routing pattern that keeps an SME's bill sane. It has a 200K context window, takes images, and supports prompt caching and 50%-off batch. Closed and cloud-only; for strict GDPR prefer an EU cloud region or a self-hosted open model.
What it can help with
- high-volume
- low-cost
- batch processing
- image input
- prompt caching
- large-context
- cost routing