Claude Haiku 3 vs Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest): API price and specs

Claude Haiku 3 is 58% cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest) on input price.

Claude Haiku 3 is 89% cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest) on output price.

Claude Haiku 3 is 74% cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest) on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Field	Claude Haiku 3	Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest)
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.21	$0.50 +138.1%
Median input, per 1M	$0.26	$1.00 +281%
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.28	$2.50 +809.1%
Median output, per 1M	$1.18	$5.00 +325.5%
Lowest unit price	—	$0.001 / request
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.27	$1.00 +277.4%
Context	200K	200K
Max output	8K +87.2%	64K
Providers	3 +91.2%	34
Regions	—	APAC, AU, EU, GLOBAL, IN, 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	poe	openrouter

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

aihubmix, helicone, poe

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 3 or Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest)?

Claude Haiku 3 is 58% cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest) on input price. Claude Haiku 3 is 89% cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest) on output price. Claude Haiku 3 is 74% cheaper than Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest) on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Claude Haiku 3 or Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest)?

Claude Haiku 3: 200K tokens; Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest): 200K tokens.

Where can I use both Claude Haiku 3 and Claude Haiku 4.5 (latest)?

aihubmix, helicone, poe