Claude Haiku 4.5 API pricing — what it really costs
Claude Haiku 4.5 (Anthropic) costs $1 per 1M input tokens and $5 per 1M output tokens — with prompt caching, cached input drops to $0.100. Prices verified 2026-07-05; we track the price you are actually billed today, including promotional rates.
Price per 1M tokens
| Input | Output | Cached input |
|---|---|---|
| $1 | $5 | $0.100 |
Real monthly costs on Claude Haiku 4.5
Three realistic workloads, computed from the prices above (cached share billed at the cache-read rate where the provider offers one):
Customer-support chatbot
$3.42/mo
2M input + 0.5M output tokens/month, 60% of input served from prompt cache
RAG / document Q&A
$12.40/mo
20M input + 1M output tokens/month, 70% cached (shared context)
Agentic coding assistant
$39.00/mo
50M input + 5M output tokens/month, 80% cached (long sessions)
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FAQ
How much does the Claude Haiku 4.5 API cost?
Claude Haiku 4.5 costs $1 per 1M input tokens and $5 per 1M output tokens. Cached input tokens cost $0.100 per 1M. Pricing verified 2026-07-05.
What does a typical workload cost on Claude Haiku 4.5?
Customer-support chatbot: about $3.42/month (2M input + 0.5M output tokens/month, 60% of input served from prompt cache). RAG / document Q&A: about $12.40/month (20M input + 1M output tokens/month, 70% cached (shared context)). Agentic coding assistant: about $39.00/month (50M input + 5M output tokens/month, 80% cached (long sessions))
Is Claude Haiku 4.5 expensive compared to other models?
Claude Haiku 4.5 ranks #6 of 15 models by blended price in our comparison. The cheapest tracked model is DeepSeek V4 Flash at $0.140/$0.280 per 1M tokens.