Claude Haiku 5.5: API price, context window and how to connect

Claude Haiku 5.5 by Anthropic: $0.1 per million input tokens, $0.5 per million output tokens, a 1M-token window. What it is good for, what to compare it with and how to connect it in SKILLOK.

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In short#

Anthropic's small, fast model for high-volume, inexpensive work: summaries, agent subtasks, browser use. Compared with Claude Haiku 4.5 it writes better code and handles computer use better.

Specifications#

Provider Anthropic
Released 2026-10-07
Context window 1M tokens
Accepts text, images, files
Answers with text
Reasoning mode yes
Tool calling yes
Open weights no
Identifier anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5

Price#

Per 1M tokens In dollars
Input (question, context) $0.1
Output (answer) $0.5

For reference: a conversation of 20 questions of ~500 tokens and answers of ~800 tokens costs about $0.009. Models in reasoning mode spend more tokens on an answer than the text shows: the reasoning is paid for too.

What it is good for#

  • Summaries and digests
  • Subtasks inside an agent
  • Processing texts at volume

Similar models#

Catalog models with the same kind of output, closest in the price of a typical request.

Model Input Output Window Price
GPT-6 Luna $0.1 $0.5 1.05M about the same
GPT-6 Luna Pro $0.1 $0.5 1.05M about the same
Qwen3.8 Flash $0.15 $0.47 1M about the same
Qwen3.8 Omni Flash $0.15 $0.47 1M about the same
Mistral Small 4 $0.15 $0.6 262K 1.3× more expensive

Other Anthropic models#

How to connect in SKILLOK#

Claude Haiku 5.5 works through OpenRouter: add an OpenRouter key in Settings → AI and pick the anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5 model. It then becomes available in Space AI, in tasks and to the repository agent. In detail — Connecting a model in SKILLOK.

Where the data comes from#

Prices, the context window and capabilities come from the public OpenRouter catalog as of 2026-10-19. A provider may change the price — the exact figure is always on the model's OpenRouter page.

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