
Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 Delivers Flagship Performance at Lower Cost
Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 4.5, a compact AI model that delivers coding performance comparable to its flagship Claude Sonnet 4. Released on October 15, 2025, the model is significantly faster and cheaper to operate. Claude Haiku 4.5 scored 73.3% on SWE-bench Verified. It matches or slightly surpasses Sonnet 4 and OpenAI’s GPT-5 in coding accuracy benchmarks. However, it runs more than twice as fast and costs about one-third as much. The pricing structure is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. Additional discounts are available through prompt caching and batch processing APIs. Anthropic positioned Haiku 4.5 […] The post Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5 Delivers Flagship Performance at Lower Cost appeared first on Phandroid .