Claude Haiku 4.5 API Pricing
$1.00 input · $5.00 output per 1M tokens — Anthropic's budget tier for high-volume, low-latency work.
Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic's budget tier: $1.00 input and $5.00 output per million tokens, with cached input at $0.10. It's the right call for high-volume, simpler tasks — classification, extraction, summarization, and straightforward tool calls.
Price per 1M tokens
Claude Haiku 4.5 · USD official list price
| Tier | Rate |
|---|---|
| Input | $1.00 |
| Output | $5.00 |
| Cache hit | $0.10 |
DeepSeek lists official prices in CNY; USD uses ≈ 6.9 exchange rate
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$1.00 / $5.00
Budget-tier list price for input and output per million tokens.
$0.10 cached input
Cached input at one-tenth of the uncached rate.
Low-latency
Designed for high-volume, latency-sensitive workloads like classification and extraction.
High-volume classification, extraction, summarization, and straightforward tool calls where the extra reasoning headroom of Sonnet 5 isn't needed.
Billing notes
Published API pricing as of September 2026, standard tier, USD per million tokens. Also qualifies for Anthropic's 50% Batch API discount on offline workloads.
Haiku 4.5 vs the competition
At $1.00/$5.00, Haiku 4.5 is more expensive than GPT-5.6 Luna ($0.20/$1.20) and DeepSeek V4 Flash off-peak (¥1.00/¥4.00) — Anthropic's budget tier still carries a premium over the cheapest models on the market.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the price of Claude Haiku 4.5 per million tokens?
Claude Haiku 4.5 bills $1.00 per million input tokens and $5.00 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.10 per million — Anthropic's budget tier for high-volume, latency-sensitive work.
When should I use Haiku 4.5 instead of Sonnet 5?
Haiku 4.5 is the right call for high-volume, simpler tasks — classification, extraction, summarization, and straightforward tool calls — where the extra reasoning headroom of Sonnet 5 isn't needed. It also benefits from Anthropic's 50% Batch discount.
Does Haiku 4.5 support caching?
Yes. Cached input is $0.10 per million tokens, one-tenth of the uncached input rate, making stable-prefix workloads especially cheap at this tier.
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