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title: "Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 with up to 90% lower token prices"
url: https://www.parallelquant.com/posts/anthropic-releases-claude-haiku-5-5-with-up-to-90-lower-token-prices-f5b070
source_name: "The Decoder"
source_url: https://the-decoder.com/claude-haiku-5-5-arrives-with-massive-price-cuts-proving-the-ai-pricing-arms-race-is-far-from-over/
published: 2026-10-07T18:49:23.000Z
topics: ["llms", "products"]
publisher: "Parallel Quant"
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# Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 with up to 90% lower token prices

*2026-10-07 · Source: [The Decoder](https://the-decoder.com/claude-haiku-5-5-arrives-with-massive-price-cuts-proving-the-ai-pricing-arms-race-is-far-from-over/)*

Claude Haiku 5.5 jumps from 15.7 to 72.4 percent on the OSWorld computer-use benchmark versus its predecessor. Token prices drop by up to 90 percent. A new tokenizer uses more tokens per task, which offsets some of the savings.

**Why it matters:** A small, cheap model reaching this level on computer use makes agentic workflows far more affordable to run at scale. The tokenizer caveat means real-world savings will be smaller than headline prices suggest, so teams should re-measure cost per task. It continues the pricing pressure across vendors on small models.

**Topics:** llms, products

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