Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5 with a big price cut and cheaper Sonnet 5.5 cache reads

Claude Haiku 5.5 arrives with massive price cuts proving the AI pricing arms race is far from over

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, with average cost about 75% lower than Haiku 4.5 and adjustable reasoning levels.

Why it matters: Anthropic cut Haiku 5.5's per-token price sharply, but the new tokenizer raises usage, so real task savings fall short of the list-price cut.