Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5 is a reasoning model from Anthropic released on Oct 1, 2025. It reads text, images and files and writes text, with a 200K token context window and up to 64K tokens per reply.
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It costs $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens. Cached input bills at $0.10, 90% less than fresh input.
It supports tool calling, structured JSON output and prompt caching.
36 providers serve it, including Azure, Databricks and Vercel AI Gateway. The lowest input price is $0.14 per million tokens at QiHang.
- Modalities
- In / out price
- $1 / $5 per 1M
- Context
- 200K
- Max output
- 64K
- Released
- Oct 1, 2025
- Knowledge cutoff
- Feb 2025
- Tool calling
- Structured output
- Reasoning
- Prompt caching
- Open weights
- Free to use
Claude Haiku 4.5 pricing
USD, as listed on Oct 15, 2026. Most bills are input heavy, so the cached input rate matters as much as the headline price.
| Input | $1 / 1M tokens | |
|---|---|---|
| Output | $5 / 1M tokens | |
| Cached input (read) | $0.10 / 1M tokens | 90% off input |
| Cache write | $1.25 / 1M tokens |
Claude Haiku 4.5 providers
36 providers serve it, including Azure, Databricks and Vercel AI Gateway. The lowest input price is $0.14 per million tokens at QiHang. Each host sets its own price and limits, so the cheapest one is not always the one with the longest context.
| Provider | Input /M | Output /M | Cache read /M | Context | Max output |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropic First party | $1 | $5 | $0.10 | 200K | 64K |
| Azure | $1 | $5 | $0.10 | 200K | 64K |
| Databricks | $1 | $5 | $0.10 | 200K | 64K |
| Vercel AI Gateway | $1 | $5 | $0.10 | 200K | 64K |
| Snowflake Cortex | n/a | n/a | – | 200K | 16K |
| QiHang | $0.14 | $0.71 | – | 200K | 64K |
| Xpersona | $0.60 | $3.70 | $0.06 | 200K | 128K |
| Poe | $0.85 | $4.30 | $0.085 | 192K | 64K |
| Jiekou.AI | $0.90 | $4.50 | – | 20K | 64K |
| Cortecs | $0.996 | $4.98 | $0.099 | 200K | 64K |
| 302.AI | $1 | $5 | – | 200K | 64K |
| Azure Cognitive Services | $1 | $5 | $0.10 | 200K | 64K |
Showing 12 of 36 providers: the lab first, then the major clouds, then the cheapest resellers.
What Claude Haiku 4.5 costs per month
Pick a workload close to yours or type your own volumes.
Supported request parameters
What you can set when you call Claude Haiku 4.5 through an OpenAI compatible API.
- Tools
tools - Structured outputs
structured_outputs - Reasoning
reasoning - Temperature
temperature
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Claude Haiku 4.5 questions
How much does the Claude Haiku 4.5 API cost?
$1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, with cached input at $0.10. The estimator on this page turns that into a monthly bill for your own workload.
What is the context window of Claude Haiku 4.5?
200,000 tokens of input, and it can write up to 64,000 tokens in one reply. As a rough guide, a million tokens is around 750,000 English words.
Which providers serve Claude Haiku 4.5?
36 providers serve it, including Azure, Databricks and Vercel AI Gateway. The lowest input price is $0.14 per million tokens at QiHang. Prices differ by host, so the Providers table on this page lists each one with its input and output price.
Does Claude Haiku 4.5 support tool calling?
Yes. It accepts tool definitions and can return JSON that matches a schema, which is what an agent needs to call your APIs.
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 open source?
No. Anthropic serves it through an API only, so you cannot download the weights or host it yourself.
When was Claude Haiku 4.5 released?
Oct 1, 2025, with training data up to Feb 2025.
Catalog data from models.dev (MIT licensed), refreshed daily, last on Oct 15, 2026. Independent scores from my hand checked rankings, sources linked above. The summary is written from these facts.
Building on Claude Haiku 4.5?
I test your real tasks on it and the two closest alternatives, then ship the agent on whichever wins on cost and accuracy.
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