# Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices

DevFeed: [Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/anthropic-releases-claude-haiku-5-5-small-model-and-halves-sonnet-5-5-cache-read-prices-67059.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/07/anthropic-releases-claude-haiku-5-5-small-model-and-halves-sonnet-5-5-cache-read-prices/>)

Author: Duncan Riley

Published: 2026-10-07T22:28:07Z

Content type: news

Language: en

Sources: [SiliconANGLE](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/siliconangle.md>)

Topics: [Claude](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/claude.md>), [Cache](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cache.md>)

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## AI overview

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 for high-volume summarization, classification and smaller coding-agent tasks. The company reports average running costs roughly 75% below Haiku 4.5, accounting for a changed tokenizer. Sonnet 5.5 cache-read prices also fell from 20 cents to 10 cents per million tokens.

## Source excerpt

Anthropic PBC today released Claude Haiku 5.5, pricing its newest small model at roughly a quarter of what Haiku 4.5 costs to run. Claude Sonnet 5.5 is getting cheaper as well, since the company is halving what it charges for cache reads on that model. Two weeks after Opus 5.5 launched Sept. 22, Haiku 5.5 [...] The post Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 small model and halves Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices appeared first on SiliconANGLE.