Claude 4.5 Haiku
A fast, small model delivering near-frontier coding and computer-use performance at ultra-low cost with exceptional speed and strong safety.
Model Details
Provider
Anthropic
Model Type
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Context Window
200,000 tokens
Pricing
Input (1M)$1.00
Output (1M)$5.00
Capabilities
1. Frontier-level coding at small-model speed
- Similar coding performance to Claude Sonnet 4 at one-third the cost.
- Runs 4-5x faster than Sonnet 4.5 for many tasks.
- Ideal for real-time pair programming, prototyping, and rapid iteration.
2. Excellent computer-use abilities
- Surpasses Claude Sonnet 4 in certain computer-control tasks.
- Great for agents requiring low-latency tool use (Chrome automation, coding agents, etc.).
3. Perfect for real-time, low-latency applications
- Chat assistants
- Customer support agents
- Interactive development loops
- Multi-agent orchestration
4. Works seamlessly with Sonnet 4.5 in hybrid agent setups
- Sonnet 4.5 plans complex workflows.
- Haiku 4.5 executes subtasks in parallel for speed and cost-efficiency.
5. High alignment & safest Claude model by metric
- Lower misaligned behavior rates than Haiku 3.5, Sonnet 4.5, and Opus 4.1.
- Limited CBRN risk → released under AI Safety Level 2 (ASL-2).