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Claude Haiku 5.5 is on the atlas — $0.10 / $0.50 up to 100k tokens

Anthropic's 7 Oct launch. API id claude-haiku-5-5. Short prompts are $0.10 in / $0.50 out per 1M tokens; over 100k, $0.50 / $2.50. First Haiku with adjustable effort. Launch-table scores stay off the ledger. /models/claude-haiku-5-5

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