Kingy.ai Price History Library · evidence observed through August 2, 2026
Claude 3.5 Haiku output price history tracks output list pricing for claude-3-5-haiku-20241022. It publishes 1 editorially verified episode while preserving the broader machine timeline as a separate evidence layer.
Identity and scope
This page identifies the Anthropic API snapshot claude-3-5-haiku-20241022. Pre-release placeholder states remain machine observations only; the verified episode starts from the purchasable $1 input / $5 output launch pricing and its corresponding prompt-cache rates.
Editorially verified change
Anthropic explicitly announced the reduction to $4 per million output tokens on December 3, 2024. The archived pricing page changed from the $5 launch price within a same-day observation bracket.
| Old price last seen | Old | New price first seen | New | Verification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| December 3, 2024 last old-price capture |
$5 | December 3, 2024 first new-price capture |
$4 | 20% cut; Anthropic announced the new input and output rates on the same date. |
Machine-detected state timeline
The rows below come from the scope-safe machine series. A changed value is not automatically an editorial change. Only rows tied to the verified brackets above support the page’s change claim; the others remain observations or held transitions.
| State | First observed | Value | Editorial status | Lineage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | $1.25 USD | machine-only state | archive98f7aa0d999ca9aa… |
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| 2 | $5 USD | machine-only state | archive4bbd29e6e6fb6414… |
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| 3 | $4 USD | bounds a verified episode | archivefda693eb3fdc7e64… |
Source and archive lineage
- Current official pricing page.
- Episode 1 before: https://web.archive.org/web/20241203010242/https://www.anthropic.com/pricing — capture SHA-256
9ffedc6e34b778d1db58ffb51bfb363207f669af862719951c1405502b15e41e. - Episode 1 after: https://web.archive.org/web/20241203092346/https://www.anthropic.com/pricing — capture SHA-256
fda693eb3fdc7e64672ad4863a21177e5ac74a127d453fa3c41391420eb9f583. - Retained series ID:
anthropic:claude-3-5-haiku:output. - Dataset series window: October 23, 2024 to December 19, 2025.
How to use this history
Use the verified row when reconstructing a dated standard-list-price estimate. Use the machine timeline to audit extraction and locate captures, not to infer billing scope or a precise effective timestamp. Recheck the provider’s current documentation before making a live purchasing or architecture decision.