claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 vs claude-haiku-5-5
| claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | claude-haiku-5-5 | |
|---|---|---|
| Providers | Anthropic | Anthropic |
| Input $/M | $0.50 | $0.05 |
| Output $/M | $2.50 | $0.25 |
| Output multiplier | ×5.00 | ×5.00 |
| Context window | 200K tokens | 1M tokens |
| Intelligence index | — | — |
| Coding index | — | — |
What the numbers mean
claude-haiku-5-5 is roughly 10.0× cheaper on input than claude-haiku-4-5-20251001. If your workload passes the quality bar on the cheaper model, that gap compounds across every request; route to claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 deliberately rather than by default.
Tags: claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 — Chat, Reasoning, Coding, Vision · claude-haiku-5-5 — Chat, Reasoning, Coding, Vision
Code
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://starseaapi.com/v1", api_key="sk-...")
# claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
client.chat.completions.create(model="claude-haiku-4-5-20251001", messages=[{"role":"user","content":"Hi"}])
# claude-haiku-5-5
client.chat.completions.create(model="claude-haiku-5-5", messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Hi"}])