Claude Haiku 4.5: Fast, Cheap, and Capable
Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic's fastest, cheapest model — $1/$5 per million tokens, 200K context, and near-frontier coding. When to pick it, and its real limits.
Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic's fastest, cheapest model — $1/$5 per million tokens, 200K context, and near-frontier coding. When to pick it, and its real limits.
Claude Haiku vs Sonnet: Haiku is cheaper and faster ($1/$5, 200K context), Sonnet is stronger ($3/$15, 1M). When each model is the right call.
Every Claude model in one place: Opus 4.8, Sonnet 5, and Haiku 4.5 compared on price, context, and use case — plus how to decode Anthropic's version names.
Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's flagship model for hard reasoning and agentic coding: the benchmarks, $5/$25 pricing, 1M context, and when to pick it over Sonnet.
A plain-English history of every Claude Opus version, from Claude 3 Opus to the Opus 4.8 flagship — what each release changed, and how to find the latest.
Claude Sonnet 5 is Anthropic's balanced daily-driver model — near-Opus performance at $3/$15, a 1M-token context window, and adaptive thinking on by default.