Small models do frontier work; platform layer races to match
Claude Haiku 4.5 and DoorDash delivery by Waymo, and The Deploy Log for this week. Every price and claim read off the publisher's own page, with a call on each.
Anthropic
Claude Haiku 4.5
DEPLOYif you run latency-sensitive coding or chat workloads
WHAT SHIPPEDClaude Haiku 4.5 is available today to all users at $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, with coding performance similar to Claude Sonnet 4 at one third the cost and more than twice the speed.
THE CATCHHaiku 4.5 surpasses Sonnet 4 on computer use tasks and scored 65% accuracy on slide text generation versus 44% from a premium tier model, so the small model is not just cheaper but better at specific jobs.
IF YOU RUNClaude Code with multiple agent projects or rapid prototyping and want markedly more responsive coding
SOURCEAnthropic, Introducing Claude Haiku 4.5
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