Claude/Fast / Budget

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5 is Claude's fastest and most affordable model, priced at $1.00/MTok input and $5.00/MTok output with a 200K context window.

Input $/MTok

$1.00

Output $/MTok

$5.00

Context window

200K

Cache read discount

90% off

Claude Haiku 4.5 pricing breakdown

RateInput $/MTokOutput $/MTok
Standard$1.00$5.00
Cached read (90% off input)$0.10-
Cached write (25% surcharge)$1.25-
Batch (50% off)$0.50$2.50

All rates in USD per million tokens. Prices verified against provider documentation.

Claude Haiku 4.5 task benchmarks

Confidence scores (0-100) and cross-provider rank for each task type. Rank 1 is best across all 88 models.

TaskConfidenceRank
Code Generation72/100#6
Code Review70/100#7
Summarization82/100#5
Q&A86/100#4
Extraction88/100#2
Reasoning65/100#7
Classification90/100#2
Creative Writing60/100#7

Claude Haiku 4.5 cost by use case

Estimated cost per API call using default token counts for each workload.

Use caseInput tokensOutput tokensCost / call
Code Generation2,0004,000$0.0220
Unit Test Generation3,0005,000$0.0280
SQL Generation1,5001,000$0.006500
API Generation3,0006,000$0.0330
Code Refactoring4,0004,000$0.0240
Code Review5,0002,000$0.0150
PR Review8,0003,000$0.0230
Security Review6,0002,500$0.0185
Bug Detection5,0002,000$0.0150
Document Summarization10,0001,000$0.0150
PDF Summarization15,0001,500$0.0225
Meeting Notes8,0002,000$0.0180

Monthly cost projections

Projected monthly spend at different call volumes, using code generation as a representative workload (2,000 input / 4,000 output tokens per call).

Calls / monthWithout cachingWith caching (90% read discount)
1K$22$20.74
10K$220$207.4
100K$2,200$2,074
500K$11,000$10,370
1M$22,000$20,740

Caching estimate assumes 70% of input tokens are cache reads. Your actual cache hit rate will depend on prompt structure and reuse.

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