Anthropic has released Claude Haiku 4.5, a smaller, faster, cheaper model available to all users. It offers near-frontier coding performance—often matching older frontier models—while cutting cost and latency. Haiku 4.5 even outperforms Claude Sonnet 4 in some tasks. Its efficiency makes it ideal for real-time use cases like assistants, pair programming, or customer support agents. Safety testing shows fewer misaligned behaviors than prior models. The model is now available via API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google’s Vertex AI, priced at $1/$5 per million input/output tokens.
