Claude 3.5 Haiku is here but people aren’t going to be happy. That’s cause it is priced at $1 per million input tokens, up 4x from Claude 3.0 Haiku's price. It also lacks image analysis features. Quoting TechCrunch:
Claude 3.5 Haiku, which Anthropic announced last month, matches or bests the performance of Anthropic’s flagship model, Claude 3 Opus, on specific benchmarks. Available through Anthropic’s API and a number of third-party platforms, including AWS Bedrock, Claude 3.5 Haiku is useful for coding suggestions, data extraction and labeling, and content moderation, Anthropic says.
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The expectation was that Anthropic would maintain its predecessor's pricing, but the new model comes with a significant cost increase. Users will now pay $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens – four times more than Claude 3 Haiku's rates of 25 cents and $1.25 respectively. Additionally, as mentioned, unlike its predecessor, Claude 3.5 Haiku launches without image analysis capabilities. According to Anthropic's head of developer relations Alex Albert, the original Claude 3 Haiku will remain available for those prioritizing cost-effectiveness and image processing features.
On the pricing front, Anthropic said this on X:
“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.” ENDQUOTE
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