Historical model (legacy). The rates below are the last recorded rates, not a recommendation for a new deployment.
Current price verification is unresolved or overdue. These are the last recorded rates; check the official source before budgeting. We do not relabel an old check with today's build date.
Claude Haiku 3.5 API Pricing
Claude Haiku 3.5 costs $0.80 per 1M input tokens and $4.00 per 1M output tokens. These rates were last verified on .
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Claude Haiku pricing history
USD · units shown per rate · all Claude models →- Input: $0.10 / 1M tokensOutput: $0.50 / 1M tokensRate first observedLatestVerified 2026-11-12
- Input: $1.00 / 1M tokensOutput: $5.00 / 1M tokensRate first observedAvailable · older versionVerified 2026-11-12
- Input: $0.80 / 1M tokensOutput: $4.00 / 1M tokensRate first observedShut downVerified 2026-11-05
Newest first. Release dates describe the model, not when today's rates took effect. Observations show when we recorded rates, not launch pricing. Image and text token meters are separate; no fixed image-token savings mix is assumed. How we verify
Published rates and billing units
| Billing dimension | USD list price |
|---|---|
| Input / 1M tokens | $0.80 |
| Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.08 |
| Cache write / 1M tokens | $1.00 |
| Output / 1M tokens | $4.00 |
| Cache write (1 hour) / 1M tokens | $1.60 |
| Batch: Input / 1M tokens | $0.40 |
| Batch: Output / 1M tokens | $2.00 |
| Batch: Cached input / 1M tokens | $0.04 |
| Batch: Cache write / 1M tokens | $0.50 |
| Batch: Cache write (1 hour) / 1M tokens | $0.80 |
Verified 2026-11-05 · Official source · Pricing methodology. Taxes, optional services and account-specific discounts are not included.
Cost examples
These examples use published list prices only. They exclude taxes, enterprise discounts, minimum charges, retries, batch discounts, and provider-specific billing rules.
1M input + 1M output
$4.80
A direct per-million comparison against every other text model.
100K input + 25K output
$0.18
A compact chat, summarization, or analysis workload.
10M input + 2M output
$16.00
A monthly production estimate for heavier RAG or agent traffic.
75% cached input + 250K output
$1.26
Cached input is about 90% cheaper than standard input at list price.
Calculator for Claude Haiku 3.5
Enter your own input, output, and cached-token assumptions. This calculator is preloaded with only Claude Haiku 3.5, so the result stays focused on this model.
Input cost
$0.80
Output cost
$4.00
Total
$4.80
Price history
No list-price movement across 50 daily snapshots from 2026-09-23 to 2026-11-11.
When to use Claude Haiku 3.5
Good fit
- high-volume routing, classification, extraction, summaries, and fallback traffic
Be careful with
- decisions that depend on unpublished context-window limits without checking the provider docs first