Claude Haiku 3.5 vs Claude Sonnet 4.6: API price and specs

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is 66% cheaper than Claude Haiku 3.5 on input price.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is 66% cheaper than Claude Haiku 3.5 on output price.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is 66% cheaper than Claude Haiku 3.5 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Claude Sonnet 4.6 has a 400% larger context than Claude Haiku 3.5.

Field	Claude Haiku 3.5	Claude Sonnet 4.6
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.44 +193.3%	$0.15
Median input, per 1M	$0.80	$3.00 +275%
Lowest output, per 1M	$2.20 +193.3%	$0.75
Median output, per 1M	$4.00	$15.00 +275%
Lowest unit price	—	$0.001 / request
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.88 +193.3%	$0.30
Context	200K +80%	1M
Max output	64K +50%	128K
Providers	6 +83.3%	36
Regions	—	APAC, AU, EU, GLOBAL, JP, US
Accepts	image, pdf, text	application/pdf, file, image, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, pdf, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	daoxe	daoxe

Your own workload: how many tokens the model gets (input) and gives back (output) - for example, in a month. The "Cost" row of the table above is recalculated for these numbers, for each model.

Computed from current offers each time the page opens; the best value of a row is bold, the percent is how far behind the best.

Providers selling both

anthropic, daoxe, helicone, opencode, poe, zenmux

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 3.5 or Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Claude Sonnet 4.6 is 66% cheaper than Claude Haiku 3.5 on input price. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is 66% cheaper than Claude Haiku 3.5 on output price. Claude Sonnet 4.6 is 66% cheaper than Claude Haiku 3.5 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Claude Haiku 3.5 or Claude Sonnet 4.6?

Claude Haiku 3.5: 200K tokens; Claude Sonnet 4.6: 1M tokens.

Where can I use both Claude Haiku 3.5 and Claude Sonnet 4.6?

anthropic, daoxe, helicone, opencode, poe, zenmux