Anthropic · AI model API pricing
How much does Claude Haiku 4.5 cost?
Anthropic's fast small model — matches GPT-5.6 Luna on input and beats it slightly on output.
Rate card
| Input tokens | $1 / 1M |
| Cached input | $0.10 / 1M |
| Output tokens | $5 / 1M |
| Context window | 200K |
What that means per month
| Workload | Tokens / month | Cost / month |
|---|---|---|
| Prototype | 1M in · 0.3M out | $2.50/mo |
| Small app | 10M in · 3M out | $25/mo |
| Production app | 50M in · 15M out | $125/mo |
| High volume | 200M in · 60M out | $500/mo |
| Heavy platform | 1B in · 300M out | $2,500/mo |
Standard on-demand rates from Anthropic's official pricing docs, last checked 2026-07-16. Monthly figures exclude caching and batch discounts. Confirm live pricing before committing.
Cheaper alternatives
At a reference workload of 10M input / 3M output tokens a month, these cost less than Claude Haiku 4.5 ($25/mo):
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Kimi K2.6 $21.5/mo -
GPT-5.4 Mini $21/mo -
Grok 4.3 $20/mo