Claude Haiku 4.5 Cost Calculator

Claude Haiku 4.5 — strong everyday performance with aggressive caching discounts. Cached input at $0.10/1M (10x cheaper than standard $1.00) makes it dominant for high-volume cache-friendly workloads.

Input

$1.00

per 1M tokens

Output

$5.00

per 1M tokens

Context window

200K

tokens

Released

2025-10

Cutoff 2025-02

Model

≈ Estimated tokenizer·$1.00 in·$5.00 out (per 1M)

Quick start with a use case

Input tokens

Output tokens

Total cost per call$0.003500

Input$0.001000

Output$0.002500

Cost comparison

Standard

$0.003500

With Caching

$0.003050

Save 13% ↓

With Batch

$0.001750

Save 50% ↓

Detailed pricing

Claude Haiku 4.5 pricing breakdown

All pricing dimensions including caching and batch discounts.

Type	Price (per 1M tokens)	Note
Input	$1.0000	Standard input tokens
Output	$5.0000	Generated output tokens
Cached input	$0.1000	Reused prompt content
Cache write	$1.2500	First-time cache deposit (Anthropic / Gemini style)
Batch input	$0.5000	~24h delay, 50% off
Batch output	$2.5000	Batch API output

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How it compares

Claude Haiku 4.5 vs alternatives

Single-call cost (1000 input + 500 output tokens) ranked from cheapest.

Model	Per call	vs Haiku 4.5
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic · this page	$0.003500	—
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek	$0.000480	−86%
GPT-5 mini OpenAI	$0.001250	−64%
Mistral Large 3 Mistral	$0.001250	−64%
Gemini 3 Flash Google	$0.002000	−43%
o4-mini OpenAI	$0.003300	−6%

Recommended use

When to choose Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5 shines for general-purpose tasks, high-throughput, and low-latency tasks. Token counts are estimated within ~10-20% margin.

✓Context window of 200K tokens handles long conversations and large documents.

✓Prompt caching available — significant savings for repeated system prompts.

✓Batch API support for non-realtime workloads at ~50% discount.

✓Tool / function calling supported.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1.00 per 1M input tokens and $5.00 per 1M output tokens. A typical chat call (1000 input + 500 output tokens) costs approximately $0.0035. Use the calculator above to estimate your specific use case.