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AI · simonwillison.net · Wednesday, 14 October 2026

Haiku 5.5 matches Luna’s low price, but long prompts cost more

Anthropic’s Haiku 5.5 brings its fast model down to $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, giving smaller workloads a much cheaper option than Haiku 4.5. A less generous tokenizer uses about 1.25 times as many tokens for the same long prompt, and prices jump fivefold beyond 100,000 tokens. Simon Willison also tested SVG generation, where a low-effort request cost 0.0936 cents and took seven seconds.

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