Claude Haiku 5.5 vs Grok 4.6: API price and specs

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 97% cheaper than Grok 4.6 on input price.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 95% cheaper than Grok 4.6 on output price.

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 96% cheaper than Grok 4.6 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Grok 4.6 has a 100% larger context than Claude Haiku 5.5.

Field	Claude Haiku 5.5	Grok 4.6
Lowest input, per 1M	$0.05	$1.60 +3100%
Median input, per 1M	$0.10	$2.00 +1900%
Lowest output, per 1M	$0.25	$4.80 +1820%
Median output, per 1M	$0.50	$6.00 +1100%
Lowest unit price	—	—
Cost of 1M in + 200k out	$0.10	$2.56 +2460%
Context	1M +50%	2M
Max output	128K +74.4%	500K
Providers	33	28 +15.2%
Regions	AU, EU, GLOBAL, JP, US	GLOBAL, US
Accepts	application/pdf, file, image, image/gif, image/jpeg, image/png, image/webp, pdf, text	file, image, image/jpeg, image/png, pdf, text
Returns	text	text
Type	Text models	Text models
Free option	no	no
Cheapest provider	iteracompute	cometapi

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

302ai, abacus, aihubmix, aiml, amazon-bedrock, cometapi, edenai, fastrouter, github-copilot, google-vertex, impossibl, jiekou, kenari, kilo, meganova, nearai, ofox, opencode, opencode-go, openrouter, perplexity-agent, poe, requesty, trustedrouter, vercel, zenmux

Frequently asked questions

Which is cheaper, Claude Haiku 5.5 or Grok 4.6?

Claude Haiku 5.5 is 97% cheaper than Grok 4.6 on input price. Claude Haiku 5.5 is 95% cheaper than Grok 4.6 on output price. Claude Haiku 5.5 is 96% cheaper than Grok 4.6 on a 1M-in / 200k-out workload.

Which has the larger context, Claude Haiku 5.5 or Grok 4.6?

Claude Haiku 5.5: 1M tokens; Grok 4.6: 2M tokens.

Where can I use both Claude Haiku 5.5 and Grok 4.6?