Anthropic’s newest AI model has arrived. But it’s pricier than the last generation — and, unlike Anthropic’s other models, it can’t analyze images (yet).
Claude 3.5 Haiku, which Anthropic announced last month, matches the performance of Claude 3 Opus, once Anthropic’s state-of-the-art model, on certain benchmarks. Available through Anthropic’s API and a number of third-party partners, Claude 3.5 Haiku is useful for coding suggestions, chatbots, data extraction and labeling, and content moderation.
Anthropic implied that Claude 3.5 Haiku would cost the same as Claude 3 Haiku, its predecessor. But now it’s changing its tune.
“During final testing, Haiku surpassed Claude 3 Opus, our previous flagship model, on many benchmarks — at a fraction of the cost. As a result, we’ve increased pricing for Claude 3.5 Haiku to reflect its increase in intelligence,” Anthropic wrote in a series of tweets.
Pricing for Claude 3.5 Haiku starts at $1 per million input tokens (~750,000 words) and $5 per million output tokens. That’s compared to 25 cents per million input tokens and $1.25 per million output tokens for Claude 3 Haiku — a steep price hike.
Claude 3.5 Haiku also isn’t launching with image analysis capabilities. Alex Albert, head of developer relations at Anthropic, said that Claude 3 Haiku will remain available “for users requiring maximum cost-efficiency and image processing.”
