Anthropic just cut the price of its cheapest model 10x and the new one beats OpenAI's small model at operating a computer. 72.4% vs 48.9% on OSWorld. Run the actual numbers on the 10x. Haiku 4.5 charged $1 per million input tokens and $5 on output. Haiku 5.5 charges $0.10 and $0.50 for prompts under 100K tokens, which covers 90% of the traffic the old model served. Cache reads fell from a dime to a penny. So an always-on agent chewing through a million tokens an hour costs about $2.40 a day…

Claude@claudeai23h ago

Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5: the cheapest, fastest, and most capable small model we’ve ever released. On average, it costs around 75% less to run than Claude Haiku 4.5.