# Claude Haiku 5.5 Pricing: $0.10/MTok vs Haiku 4.5

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- Title: Claude Haiku 5.5 Pricing: $0.10/MTok vs Haiku 4.5
- Summary: Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 in / $0.50 out per MTok, 90% below Haiku 4.5. Real cost math, the tokenizer caveat and the 100K-token price cliff.
- Published: Oct 7, 2026, 10:49 PM EDT
- Updated: Oct 7, 2026, 10:49 PM EDT
- Category: Research
- Primary topic: Claude 4 5 Haiku
- Authors: Maya Rao
- Read time: 7 min
- Language: en_US
- Publication time zone: America/New_York (U.S. Eastern Time)
- Access: Free to read

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