Price comparison · checked October 12, 2026

Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Claude Haiku 5.5 pricing

For a typical support chatbot (60,000 conversations a month), Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $18.00 a month and Claude Sonnet 5.5 costs $360. That makes Claude Haiku 5.5 20× cheaper for this workload.

Claude Sonnet 5.5Claude Haiku 5.5
ProviderAnthropicAnthropic
Input / 1M$2.00$0.10
Cached input / 1M$0.10$0.010
Output / 1M$10.00$0.50
Context window1M1M
Notes–5× price for prompts over 100K tokens

Monthly cost by workload

WorkloadClaude Sonnet 5.5Claude Haiku 5.5Difference
Support chatbot
60,000 req · 1,500 in / 300 out
$360$18.00Claude Haiku 5.5 20× cheaper
Document summaries
20,000 req · 6,000 in / 400 out
$320$16.00Claude Haiku 5.5 20× cheaper
Coding assistant
30,000 req · 4,000 in / 800 out
$480$24.00Claude Haiku 5.5 20× cheaper
RAG search
100,000 req · 2,500 in / 250 out
$750$37.50Claude Haiku 5.5 20× cheaper

Standard rates, no caching or batch discounts. Sources: platform.claude.com

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1,000 tokens is about 750 English words. Input includes your system prompt, chat history and any retrieved documents.

Claude Haiku 5.5
AnthropicCheapest
$18.00 /mo
Claude Sonnet 5.5
Anthropic
$360 /mo

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