Claude Haiku 4.5
Anthropic’s smallest, fastest model, for chat, support and work split across many small agents.
About Claude Haiku 4.5
Haiku 4.5 is the quick one. When it came out in October 2025 it matched the coding of the then-current Sonnet 4 at a third of the cost and more than twice the speed, scoring 73.3% on SWE-bench Verified. It was also the first Haiku that could think before answering and operate a computer.
Anthropic pitches it as a worker a bigger model directs — many Haikus running in parallel under one Opus — and for anything a customer waits on, like live chat. It is the oldest model in Anthropic’s current line, and that shows in what it knows.
Where it’s strong
Live chat and customer-support agents, where speed matters most.
Sub-agents running in parallel under a larger model.
High-volume sorting, tagging and data extraction.
Quick coding help and prototypes.
Where to be careful
Its knowledge is old: reliable to February 2025, more than a year behind the 5.x models.
Anthropic only guarantees it until mid-October 2026. For new work, plan for a successor.
Smaller limits than newer models: 200K tokens of context and 64K of output.
Price
For scale: 1,000 requests of about 3,000 tokens in and 1,000 out cost $9.20 — a long prompt and a page of answer each. Every rate is published and stays the same from one request to the next. See every model.
Specs
claude-haiku-4-5Call it
Use the OpenAI SDK you already have — point it at Roar AI and name the model. Read the docs.
from openai import OpenAI
client = OpenAI(base_url="https://api.roar-ai.com/v1", api_key="roar_live_…")
reply = client.chat.completions.create(
model="claude-haiku-4-5",
messages=[{"role": "user", "content": "Summarise this contract in plain English."}],
)Compare Claude Haiku 4.5
Questions
How much does Claude Haiku 4.5 cost?
Input is $1.15 per 1M tokens; output is $5.75 per 1M tokens. For scale, 1,000 requests of about 3,000 tokens in and 1,000 out cost $9.20. The rate is published and does not change from one request to the next.
Can I use Claude Haiku 4.5 alongside other models?
Yes. Every model on Roar AI is on the same API key and the same monthly invoice, so switching from Claude Haiku 4.5 to another model is a change to one word in your code.
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 open source?
No. Anthropic does not publish the weights, so it is only available through an API like this one.
