// event · model
Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5
modelvendor: Anthropicpublished: 6d agoconfidence: 0.90id: 2368d4e1-a2d8-4e23-a5df-e636cd9fe26f
Anthropic announced Claude Haiku 5.5, positioned as its fastest, cheapest, and most capable small model to date. The model targets high-volume, latency- and cost-sensitive agent workloads such as classification, routing, extraction, and tool-use loops where price-per-token and throughput dominate the decision to deploy.
capability delta
An agent can now call Claude Haiku 5.5, Anthropic's fastest and cheapest small model, for high-volume cost-sensitive tasks via the Anthropic API.
curator note
Model announcement from Anthropic blog; API model ID assumed to be claude-haiku-5-5 pending confirmation.
// example
python
from anthropic import Anthropic
client = Anthropic()
msg = client.messages.create(
model="claude-haiku-5-5",
max_tokens=512,
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarize this ticket in one sentence."}],
)
print(msg.content[0].text)
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