Anthropic drops Haiku 5.5 to $0.10/M, matching GPT-6 Luna on the eve of its IPO

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Thursday, October 8, 2026

Confidence

High · — Anthropic primary + Reuters/VentureBeat/MarkTechPost/Yahoo Finance corroborating; benchmark remains self-reported

Evidence

company release + four independent corroborating outlets + vendor-reported benchmark

Anthropic shipped Claude Haiku 5.5 Wednesday with a two-tier price that lands exactly where OpenAI's cheapest model sits — days before Anthropic's IPO.

The details

$0.10/M input, $0.50/M output — matching GPT-6 Luna under 100K tokens.
Above 100,000 tokens, prices step up to $0.50 and $2.50 per million.
Anthropic-reported 72.4% on OSWorld 2.1 vs. 15.7% for Haiku 4.5 ; 1M context window.

What it means

Two independent labs now agree on the floor price of a small-model token: the small tier is a commodity and pricing power moves up-stack to Sonnet/Opus and GPT-6 Sol. For an IPO roadshow, pricing to the competitor's floor signals Anthropic will defend the fast lane on volume, not margin.

Anthropic shipped Claude Haiku 5.5 Wednesday with a two-tier price that lands exactly where OpenAI's cheapest model sits — days before Anthropic's IPO.

$0.10/M input, $0.50/M output — matching GPT-6 Luna under 100K tokens.
Above 100,000 tokens, prices step up to $0.50 and $2.50 per million.
Anthropic-reported 72.4% on OSWorld 2.1 vs. 15.7% for Haiku 4.5 ; 1M context window.

Sources

72.4% on OSWorld 2.1 vs. 15.7% for Haiku 4.5 ↗

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$0.10▼

per million input tokens — Claude Haiku 5.5

Roughly 75% cheaper to run than Haiku 4.5 on average , and the same price as OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna. Two labs now agree on the small-model floor. Source. Source: Anthropic release, Oct 7 2026; OpenAI GPT-6 Luna rate card.

Today’s Take

Today was two stories, not five: the small-model tier commoditized, and the regulators finally wrote agents into the governance perimeter. Each one in isolation is a buyer-side win — cheaper inference, clearer rules — but together they shorten the window where "experimental agent pilot" is a defensible procurement posture. The next twelve months separate teams that productionized while the floor was moving from teams that waited for stability that is no longer coming. Considered and passed: Manus's $500M round (single CNBC source, no valuation disclosed) and the Meta VP's one-person-unicorn claim (no customer, no number).

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