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Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Claude Sonnet 5.5

Pricing per million tokens, context window, capabilities — pulled from each provider's public docs. All 2 are available via the same AIgateway OpenAI-compatible endpoint; flip the model string to switch.

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Claude Haiku 4.5
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5
Provider
Anthropic
Anthropic
Family
Claude 4
Claude 4
Modality
text
text
Context window
200,000 tok
1,000,000 tok
Max output
8,192 tok
128,000 tok
Released
2026-05-22
2026-10-06
License
Proprietary
Proprietary
Input price
$1.00 /1M
$2.00 /1M
Output price
$5.00 /1M
$10.00 /1M
Cache read
$0.100 /1M
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Cache write
$1.25 /1M
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Tools
yes
yes
Streaming
yes
yes
Vision
yes
yes
JSON mode
yes
yes
Reasoning
—
yes
Prompt caching
yes
—
Batch API
—
—
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Claude Haiku 4.5
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5
Full spec →

Claude Haiku 4.5 delivers similar levels of coding performance at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed of larger models.

Strengths
  • Fastest Claude
  • Cheap enough for per-token workloads
  • Still supports tools + vision
Use cases
ClassifiersRoutingHigh-throughput chatReal-time agents
Claude Sonnet 5.5
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5
Full spec →

Claude Sonnet 5.5 offers the best combination of speed and intelligence, with adaptive thinking for coding, tool use, reasoning, and long-horizon work.

Strengths
  • General-purpose chat
  • Long context
  • Tool use
Use cases
ChatbotsContent generationAgentic workflows

Benchmarks

Claude Haiku 4.5
Claude Sonnet 5.5
HumanEval
85.2
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MMLU
80.1
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Source: each provider's published benchmarks. Higher is better. Run an eval to compare on your own data.

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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-6.1 Sol
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5 · openai/gpt-6.1-sol
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs Glm-5.3
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Claude Sonnet 5.5 vs GPT-5.6 Sol
anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5 · openai/gpt-5.6-sol
SWITCH BETWEEN THEM

One key, all 2, one line different.

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.aigateway.sh/v1",
    api_key="sk-aig-...",
)

# Claude Haiku 4.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)

# Claude Sonnet 5.5
client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-sonnet-5.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"hello"}],
)
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