Anthropic’s newest AI model has arrived. But it’s pricier than the last generation — and, unlike Anthropic’s other models, can’t analyze images just yet.
Claude 3.5 Haiku, which Anthropic announced last month, matches or bests the performance of Claude 3 Opus, once Anthropic’s state-of-the-art model, on particular benchmarks. Available through Anthropic’s API and a number of third-party platforms, including AWS Bedrock, Claude 3.5 Haiku is useful for coding suggestions, data extraction and labeling, and content moderation, Anthropic says.
Anthropic previously suggested that Claude 3.5 Haiku would cost the same as Claude 3 Haiku, its predecessor. But now, it’s changing its tune.
“During final testing, Haiku surpassed Claude 3 Opus, our previous flagship model, on many benchmarks — at a fraction of the cost. As a result, we’ve increased pricing for Claude 3.5 Haiku to reflect its increase in intelligence,” Anthropic wrote in a post on X.
Pricing for Claude 3.5 Haiku starts at $1 per million input tokens (~750,000 words) and $5 per million output tokens. That’s versus 25 cents per million input tokens and $1.25 per million output tokens for Claude 3 Haiku — a 4x price hike.
Claude 3.5 Haiku also isn’t launching with image analysis capabilities, putting it at a disadvantage compared to Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3.5 Sonnet. Alex Albert, head of developer relations at Anthropic, said that Claude 3 Haiku will remain available “for users requiring maximum cost-efficiency and image processing.”
