Claude Haiku 5.5 pricing: real cost per million tokens
What Anthropic's Claude Haiku 5.5 really costs across 4 plans from 1 provider: monthly fees, usable allowances and real per-token prices, against the official API list price and independent leaderboards.
Data updated · How real prices are computed
As of 2026-10-08, the cheapest way to use Claude Haiku 5.5 is Claude Max 5x (9/14+) at a real cost of about $0.00028 per million tokens ($100/month for roughly 358.049B tokens a month). We track 4 plans and API channels that serve Claude Haiku 5.5. Official API list price per million tokens: $0.01 cached input, $0.1 input, $0.5 output — about $0.0147 per million tokens on a standard workload mix.
- Lowest real price
- $0.00028/MTokClaude Max 5x (9/14+)
- API list price
- $0.0147/MTokstandard workload mix
- Most monthly tokens
- 615.913BClaude Max 20x (9/14+)
- Plans & APIs
- 43 subscriptions · 1 metered API
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Claude Haiku 5.5 plans and real prices
Real price = monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use in a month. “vs API” shows how many times cheaper than the official API list price (standard workload mix) the plan is. “Evidence” opens the full calculation and sources for that row.
| Plan | Provider | Billing | Monthly fee | Monthly tokens | Real $/MTok | vs API | Confidence | Data date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Max 5x (9/14+) | Anthropic | Subscription | $100/mo | 358.049B | $0.00028 | 52.6× | Low | Evidence ↓ | |
| Claude Max 20x (9/14+) | Anthropic | Subscription | $200/mo | 615.913B | $0.00032 | 45.3× | Low | Evidence ↓ | |
| Claude Pro | Anthropic | Subscription | $20/mo | 59.642B | $0.00034 | 43.8× | Low | Evidence ↓ | |
| Claude Haiku 5.5 API | Anthropic | Metered API | — | — | $0.02146 | — | High | Evidence ↓ |
Behind each number
For every plan: the data date, the exact calculation, the quota basis, how leaderboard scores were mapped, and the original adoption evidence with its sources.
Claude Max 5x (9/14+)Anthropic$0.000279291/MTok
- Data date
- 2026-09-29 – 2026-10-03 · derived; uses the data date of Claude Max 5x (9/14+) · claude-opus-5.5
- Real price / MTok
- $0.000279291
- Monthly tokens
- 358,049,200,000 (358.049B)
- Quota confidence
- Low
- Calculation
- $100 / month ÷ 358,049,200,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.000279291 / MTok
- Quota basis
Anthropic workload: 97% cache reads / 2.5% cache writes / 0.5% output
Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.01 / $0.1 / $0.5 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.0147/MTok
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
From same-plan claude-opus-5.5 18.334B × 19.52924726171056
New 358.049B: Max 5x Opus 5.5 direct-measurement anchor 18.334B × blended-price ratio 19.5292 (Haiku 5.5 90/10 tiered blend), same-basis derivation as Pro, not measured; ruled on 2026-10-08 to anchor to the same-plan directly measured row instead of 20x÷2; not adopted: pure ≤100K 501.269B, 50/50 167.09B; claude-haiku55-round1-2026-10-08.json
claude-haiku55-round1-2026-10-08.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
Claude Max 20x (9/14+)Anthropic$0.000324721/MTok
- Data date
- 2026-09-22 – 2026-09-27 · derived; uses the data date of Claude Max 20x (9/14+) · claude-opus-5.5
- Real price / MTok
- $0.000324721
- Monthly tokens
- 615,913,400,000 (615.913B)
- Quota confidence
- Low
- Calculation
- $200 / month ÷ 615,913,400,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.000324721 / MTok
- Quota basis
Anthropic workload: 97% cache reads / 2.5% cache writes / 0.5% output
Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.01 / $0.1 / $0.5 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.0147/MTok
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
From same-plan claude-opus-5.5 31.538B × 19.52924726171056
New 615.913B: Max 20x Opus 5.5 adopted value 31.538B × blended-price ratio 19.5292 (Haiku 5.5 90/10 tiered blend), same-basis derivation as Pro, not measured; the extrapolation is large and must be re-derived if pool weighting deviates from the price ratio; not adopted: pure ≤100K 862.279B, 50/50 287.426B; claude-haiku55-round1-2026-10-08.json
claude-haiku55-round1-2026-10-08.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
Claude ProAnthropic$0.000335332/MTok
- Plan
- Claude Pro · Anthropic
- Data date
- 2026-09-22 – 2026-09-27 · derived; uses the data date of Claude Pro · claude-opus-5.5
- Real price / MTok
- $0.000335332
- Monthly tokens
- 59,642,300,000 (59.642B)
- Quota confidence
- Low
- Calculation
- $20 / month ÷ 59,642,300,000 tokens × 1,000,000 ≈ $0.000335332 / MTok
- Quota basis
Anthropic workload: 97% cache reads / 2.5% cache writes / 0.5% output
Official API list (cached / in / out, per MTok): $0.01 / $0.1 / $0.5 · standard-load blended ≈ $0.0147/MTok
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
From same-plan claude-opus-5.5 3.054B × 19.52924726171056
New 59.642B: Pro Opus 5.5 measured anchor 3.054B × blended-price ratio 19.5292 (Opus 5.5 $0.419 vs Haiku 5.5 90/10 tiered blend $0.021455: ≤100K tier $0.015325 at 90%, >100K tier $0.076625 at 10%; ruled on 2026-10-08 to approximate tokens at 90% falling in the ≤100K tier — community reports ~90% of requests <100K, and folding request counts into tokens would underestimate the >100K share); not adopted: pure ≤100K tier 83.499B, 50/50 27.833B; X @1kartikkabadi1 derivation chart; claude-haiku55-round1-2026-10-08.json
claude-haiku55-round1-2026-10-08.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
Claude Haiku 5.5 APIAnthropic$0.021455/MTok
- Data date
- 2026-10-08 · official source date
- Real price / MTok
- $0.021455
- Quota confidence
- High
- Calculation
- Metered API · public token prices weighted by the Anthropic workload (input share at the 5-minute cache-write rate).
Adoption evidence · source and rationale (translated from the Chinese record)
platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/pricing; released 2026-10-08, the cheapest and fastest mini model to date, officially ~75% cheaper than Haiku 4.5 on average; ≤100K tier cached $0.01/in $0.10/out $0.50, write $0.125/5m; >100K tier 5× (cached $0.05/in $0.50/out $2.50, write $0.625/5m); blended 90/10 across tiers; claude-haiku55-round1-2026-10-08.json
Anthropic tier blended price $0.021455/MTok = ≤100K tier $0.015325 (cached 0.01 / write-5m 0.125 / out 0.5) ×90% + >100K tier $0.076625 (cached 0.05 / write-5m 0.625 / out 2.5) ×10%; each tier × the Anthropic unified workload 97.0%/2.50%/0.50% (the fresh-input share priced at the 5-minute cache-write rate); the 90/10 split is the token approximation ruled on 2026-10-08 (community reports ~90% of requests <100K); the pure ≤100K basis $0.015325 and the 50/50 basis $0.045975 not adopted
claude-haiku55-round1-2026-10-08.jsonBrowse the public evidence archive
Claude Haiku 5.5 official API pricing
| Cached input | Input | Output |
|---|---|---|
| $0.01 | $0.1 | $0.5 |
Frequently asked questions
How much does Claude Haiku 5.5 really cost per million tokens?
Measured as monthly fee ÷ tokens you can actually use, Claude Haiku 5.5 ranges from $0.00028 (Claude Max 5x (9/14+)) to $0.02146 (Claude Haiku 5.5 API) per million tokens.
Which subscription gives the most Claude Haiku 5.5 usage?
Claude Max 20x (9/14+) allows roughly 615.913B tokens of Claude Haiku 5.5 per month for $200.
What is the official API price of Claude Haiku 5.5?
Official API list price per million tokens: $0.01 cached input, $0.1 input, $0.5 output — about $0.0147 per million tokens on a standard workload mix.
Who makes Claude Haiku 5.5, and where can I use it?
Claude Haiku 5.5 (model ID claude-haiku-5.5) is made by Anthropic and is available through Anthropic.
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