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Anthropic launches Haiku 4.5; twice the speed at a third of the cost

Haiku 4.5 offers what would be state of the art performance six months ago, for a fraction of the price.
Haiku 4.5 will be the new face of Anthropic’s free plans, and offers similar performance to Sonnet 4. (Picture: Anthropic)
The latest Haiku model compares in performance with Sonnet 4 — which was state of the art half a year ago.

— What was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster. Five months ago, Claude Sonnet 4 was a state-of-the-art model, writes Anthropic. — Today, Claude Haiku 4.5 gives you similar levels of coding performance, but at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed.

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Anthropic announces Claude Sonnet 4.5, Claude Code gets top requests

Sonnet 4.5 should make it easier for novices to code from scratch and for the pros to manage large code bases.
«Code is everywhere,» Anthropic says, and say their new model will make it easier than ever. (Picture: Anthropic)
Anthropic says it’s «the best coding model in the world,» and backs it up with solid leads in the benchmarks.

The model comes hot on the heels of Opus 4.1, the launch of file creation and Claude for Chrome, which all seem to be included in this release.

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