Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5
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Anthropic's announcement of Claude Haiku 4.5, a small, fast, cost-efficient model with safety evaluations included, relevant to AI safety as it documents alignment improvements over its predecessor and deployment of capable agentic models.
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Summary
Anthropic announces Claude Haiku 4.5, a small model offering near-frontier coding performance at one-third the cost and twice the speed of Claude Sonnet 4. The model is designed for real-time, low-latency agentic tasks and multi-agent orchestration. Safety evaluations indicate low rates of concerning behaviors and improved alignment over Claude Haiku 3.5.
Key Points
- •Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers ~90% of Sonnet 4.5's coding performance at 1/3 the cost and 2-4x the speed, priced at $1/$5 per million input/output tokens.
- •Designed for agentic use cases including sub-agent orchestration, computer use, pair programming, and real-time chat assistants.
- •Safety evaluations show substantially improved alignment over predecessor Claude Haiku 3.5, with low rates of concerning behaviors.
- •Enables new multi-agent architectures where Sonnet 4.5 orchestrates multiple Haiku 4.5 instances working in parallel on subtasks.
- •Available via Claude API as 'claude-haiku-4-5' and integrated into products like Claude Code and Claude for Chrome.
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Product Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5
Oct 15, 2025 Claude Haiku 4.5, our latest small model, is available today to all users.
What was recently at the frontier is now cheaper and faster. Five months ago, Claude Sonnet 4 was a state-of-the-art model. Today, Claude Haiku 4.5 gives you similar levels of coding performance but at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed.
Claude Haiku 4.5 even surpasses Claude Sonnet 4 at certain tasks, like using computers. These advances make applications like Claude for Chrome faster and more useful than ever before.
Users who rely on AI for real-time, low-latency tasks like chat assistants, customer service agents, or pair programming will appreciate Haiku 4.5’s combination of high intelligence and remarkable speed. And users of Claude Code will find that Haiku 4.5 makes the coding experience—from multiple-agent projects to rapid prototyping—markedly more responsive.
Claude Sonnet 4.5, released two weeks ago , remains our frontier model and the best coding model in the world. Claude Haiku 4.5 gives users a new option for when they want near-frontier performance with much greater cost-efficiency. It also opens up new ways of using our models together. For example, Sonnet 4.5 can break down a complex problem into multi-step plans, then orchestrate a team of multiple Haiku 4.5s to complete subtasks in parallel.
Claude Haiku 4.5 is available everywhere today. If you’re a developer, simply use claude-haiku-4-5 via the Claude API. Pricing is now $1/$5 per million input and output tokens.
Benchmarks
Claude Haiku 4.5 is one of our most powerful models to date. See footnotes for methodology. Claude Haiku 4.5 hit a sweet spot we didn't think was possible: near-frontier coding quality with blazing speed and cost efficiency . In Augment's agentic coding evaluation, it achieves 90% of Sonnet 4.5's performance, matching much larger models. We're excited to offer it to our users. Claude Haiku 4.5 is a leap forward for agentic coding , particularly for sub-agent orchestration and computer use tasks. The responsiveness makes AI-assisted development in Warp feel instantaneous. Historically models have sacrificed speed and cost for quality. Claude Haiku 4.5 is blurring the lines on this trade off: it's a fast frontier model that keeps costs efficient and signals where this class of models is headed. Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers intelligence without sacrificing speed , enabling us to build AI applications that utilize both deep reasoning and real-time responsiveness. Claude Haiku 4.5 is remarkably capable— just six months ago, this level of performance would have been state-of-the-art on our internal benchmarks. Now it runs up to 4-5 times faster than Sonnet 4.5 at a fraction of the cost, unlocking an entirely new set of use cases. Speed is the new frontier for AI agents operating in feedback loops. Haiku 4.5 proves you can have both intelligence and rapid output . It handl
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