AI Model Profile
Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic's Haiku-tier model described in official docs as the fastest current model with near-frontier intelligence.
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Buying details reviewed 2026-10-23. Price, included amounts and access are dated observations; check the official source for current terms. This date does not review the whole fact ledger or renew historical demonstrations.
Best for: Candidate for fast Claude API workflows, lighter agents, and cost-sensitive business automation.
Price: USD API: US$1 input / US$5 output per 1M tokens
Included: Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic's Haiku-tier model described in official docs as the fastest current model with near-frontier intelligence.
Main limits: Standard token rates; caching, batch, service tier and hosted tools are separate. API access does not include a Claude app subscription or establish entitlement to a restricted model.
What Kingy showed: Related coverage: The cheapest AI API models in 2026—priced as workloads, not headlines. This review does not treat that article as a new test of this exact model, plan or current release.
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- Family
- Claude
- Release date
- Unknown
- Status
- Current
- Context window
- 200K tokens
- Output limit
- Unknown
- API
- yes
- Open weights
- no
- Local/self-hosted
- no
- Pricing
- input $1; output $5 per million tokens (published list price, observed 2026-07-26)
- Evidence state
- Recheck due
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Best for
Candidate for fast Claude API workflows, lighter agents, and cost-sensitive business automation.
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Strengths
Official docs list the lowest Claude pricing among the latest comparison table and fastest comparative latency.
Weaknesses
This profile does not claim it matches Opus or Sonnet on complex tasks; validate on target workloads.
Agent suitability
Candidate for lightweight or high-volume agent subtasks where latency and cost matter.
Kingy AI take
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Kingy AI Product Facts
Claude Haiku 4.5
Current statusUnknown
- Company
- Not yet reviewed
- Primary job
- Not yet reviewed
- Audience
- Not yet reviewed
- Evidence
- Source-backed; coverage expanding
- Latest source check
- October 23, 2026
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Sources and checks
- Coverage
- 1 of 88 tracked fields currently verified
- Sources
- 1
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Plans and pricing units
Not yet structured in this Kingy record.
Where it runs
- Availability
- Not yet reviewed
Stack and integrations
- Model / provider dependencies
- Not yet reviewed
- Integrations
- Not yet reviewed
Data and regions
- Vendor data-use claim
- Not yet reviewed
- Vendor retention claim
- Not yet reviewed
- Regions
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Launch and latest material update
- Launch
- Not yet reviewed
- Latest material update
- Not yet reviewed
Full Model Notes
Who should consider it
Candidate for fast Claude API workflows, lighter agents, and cost-sensitive business automation. Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic's Haiku-tier model described in official docs as the fastest current model with near-frontier intelligence.
Plan, price and billing scope
USD API: US$1 input / US$5 output per 1M tokens. Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic's Haiku-tier model described in official docs as the fastest current model with near-frontier intelligence. Prices use the currency and billing term stated here. Where a numeric rate, region or current entitlement could not be verified, it remains explicit; no checkout was completed.
Limits that affect the decision
Standard token rates; caching, batch, service tier and hosted tools are separate. API access does not include a Claude app subscription or establish entitlement to a restricted model.
What the existing evidence shows
Related coverage: The cheapest AI API models in 2026—priced as workloads, not headlines. This review does not treat that article as a new test of this exact model, plan or current release. Related workflow reading; not a demonstration of this exact product. Read the related article.
Sources and buying-review date
Buying review completed October 23, 2026. This is a source-based buying assessment. No paid product test, new generation, checkout or performance benchmark was performed. Vendor descriptions and historical examples remain distinct from independently measured results. The date does not renew the broader canonical fact ledger.
- Official source: platform.claude.com
- Official source: platform.claude.com
- Official source: www.anthropic.com
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Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic’s Haiku-tier model described in official docs as the fastest current model with near-frontier intelligence.
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Coding notes
Evaluate on coding subtasks rather than assuming frontier coding depth.
Reasoning notes
Official docs list extended thinking support, but not adaptive thinking for Haiku 4.5.
Creative notes
Supports text and image input according to Anthropic Claude docs.
Research notes
Candidate for shorter research and classification tasks with source review.
API pricing notes
$1 input MTok and $5 output MTok in Anthropic model overview as checked on 2026-06-18.
License notes
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