Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude Haiku 4.5 is Anthropic's budget-tier text model with multimodal input support covering text, images, and files. It offers a 200,000-token context window and up to 64,000 completion tokens, which gives it room for long documents and extended outputs. The model supports tool use and reasoning, making it capable of agentic workflows beyond simple question-answering. At $1.00 per million input tokens and $5.00 per million output tokens, it sits at the lower end of the pricing spectrum, which makes it worth considering for high-volume or cost-sensitive applications. Its blended benchmark score of 38.5 is drawn from only one independent benchmark, so treat that figure as a limited signal rather than a comprehensive picture of performance. Teams already invested in the Anthropic ecosystem who need multimodal input and long context at reduced cost are the clearest candidates here, though anyone prioritizing peak benchmark performance should compare this against higher-scoring alternatives before committing.