Archive — September 2026. This is the record of Anthropic’s 40% Haiku price cut. Current pricing: Haiku 4.5 lists at $1 / $5 per MTok — see our verified Claude pricing page.
Last refreshed: October 5, 2026 (Pacific)
Anthropic Slashes Claude 4.6 Haiku API Pricing by 40%
In a September 2026 bid for enterprise market share, Anthropic slashed the input token costs for Claude 4.6 Haiku.
- Old Price: $0.25 / 1M Input Tokens
- New Price: $0.15 / 1M Input Tokens
What this means for CTOs
At the time, teams running high-volume log parsing, support routing, or large RAG pipelines could cut inference bills by routing to Claude 4.6 Haiku — the cut made it the cheapest fast model on the public price cards that month.
Outcome (October 2026): model pricing moves fast — Haiku 4.5 now lists at $1 / $5 per MTok. For today’s numbers, see our verified Claude pricing page.
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