Which is cheaper for input tokens: Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku or Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku?
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku is cheaper or equal on input token cost by $0.55 per 1M tokens.
Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark
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Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.
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| Metric | Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku | Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | anthropic | anthropic |
| Context Window | 200,000 | 200,000 |
| Input Cost / 1M Tokens | $0.2500 | $0.8000 |
| Output Cost / 1M Tokens | $1.25 | $4.00 |
| Projected Monthly Cost | $105 | $336 |
| Vision | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Tool Calling | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Structured Output | ❌ No | ❌ No |
| Reasoning | ❌ No | ❌ No |
| MMLU Score | N/A | N/A |
Price History
Current Input / 1M
$0.2500
Current Output / 1M
$1.25
Price History
Current Input / 1M
$0.8000
Current Output / 1M
$4.00
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Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku
$105
per month
Lower costAnthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku
$336
per month
Live Recommendation
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.
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Common questions for Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku vs Anthropic: Claude 3.5 Haiku pricing decisions.
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku is cheaper or equal on input token cost by $0.55 per 1M tokens.
Anthropic: Claude 3 Haiku is cheaper or equal on output token cost by $2.75 per 1M tokens.
$231 difference for the default scenario (120M input + 60M output tokens/month).
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