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Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5, released on 15 October 2025 and available to all users, offered coding performance close to Sonnet 4 at one-third of the cost and more than twice the speed.

Status AvailableModality Text, ImageContext (K tokens) 200 Era Generative AI for everyone

License
Proprietary
Access
API, App, Enterprise
Release date
Developer
Anthropic

What it is

Claude Haiku 4.5 is a large language model developed by Anthropic and released on 15 October 2025 under the API identifier claude-haiku-4-5, with the snapshot claude-haiku-4-5-20251001. It was available to all users, including on the Claude apps and in Claude Code.[1][3]

Origins

Anthropic positioned Claude Haiku 4.5 as a drop-in replacement for Claude Haiku 3.5 and Sonnet 4. In other words, it was meant to take over the jobs those models did, without changes to how applications call it.[1]

According to Wikipedia, its training data ran to February 2025.[4]

Main features

Anthropic said the model offered coding performance similar to Claude Sonnet 4, at one-third of the cost and more than twice the speed.[1] Its price was $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens.[1]

On SWE-bench Verified, a coding benchmark, the model scored 73.3%, averaged over 50 trials.[1][2] Anthropic said it surpassed Sonnet 4 at computer use, the ability to operate a computer interface, and matched it on coding, computer use and agent tasks.[1][2]

The model was released under AI Safety Level 2 (ASL-2) protections, a lower level than the ASL-3 protections used for Sonnet 4.5 and Opus 4.1. In Anthropic's automated alignment assessment, it showed a lower rate of misaligned behaviour than both of those models. Anthropic called it its “safest model yet” by that measure.[1]

The model was available in the Claude apps, Claude Code, the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud Vertex AI.[1]

Benchmark scores are the share of tasks a model completes correctly on a fixed test. A score from one test cannot be compared directly with a score from another, so a figure is most useful alongside the price and speed at which the model is sold.

Its place in development

Claude Haiku 4.5 became the recommended replacement for the retired Claude Haiku 3.5 and Claude Haiku 3, and Anthropic has said its retirement is not sooner than 15 October 2026.[3]

Claude Haiku 5.5 succeeded it on 7 October 2026.[4]

Version history

5
  1. 2023
    • Mar 14, 2023 Claude Instant

      A lighter, cheaper and faster version of Anthropic's Claude model, released in 2023 for business use through the API and retired in November 2024.

  2. 2024
    • Mar 13, 2024 Claude 3 Haiku

      Claude 3 Haiku is the smallest and fastest model in Anthropic's Claude 3 family, announced in March 2024 with low per-token pricing, a 200K-token context window and image input; retired in April 2026.

    • Oct 22, 2024 Claude 3.5 Haiku

      Anthropic's small, fast language model announced in October 2024 as the successor to Claude 3 Haiku, claimed to reach the intelligence of the previous flagship at Haiku-like speed and to be especially strong at coding.

  3. 2025
    • Oct 15, 2025 Claude Haiku 4.5 · This page

      Claude Haiku 4.5, released on 15 October 2025 and available to all users, offered coding performance close to Sonnet 4 at one-third of the cost and more than twice the speed.

  4. 2026
    • Oct 7, 2026 Claude Haiku 5.5

      Claude Haiku 5.5, released on 7 October 2026, is the third model in the Claude 5.5 family. Anthropic called it the cheapest, fastest and most capable small model it had released, at about 75% less cost to run on average.

20251

  1. ReleaseAnthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5

    On 15 October 2025 Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5 to all users. It cost $1 and $5 per million tokens and matched Sonnet 4's coding performance at one-third the cost.

Developed by1

Anthropic

Succeeded by1

Claude Haiku 5.5

Successor of1

Claude 3.5 Haiku

Notes and sources

  1. Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-haiku-4-5
  2. Claude Haikuhttps://www.anthropic.com/claude/haiku
  3. Model deprecationshttps://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/model-deprecations
  4. Claude (language model)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

Cite this page: Claude Haiku 4.5. TellWorld, https://www.tellworld.net/models/claude-haiku-4-5. Updated 2026-11-08