Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5, its cheapest and fastest small model

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, which it calls its cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model. It costs around 75% less to run than Haiku 4.5 and is aimed at high-volume, cost-sensitive tasks such as summaries and classification. The release also cuts Sonnet 5.5 cache read prices by 50%, and the model is available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.