Head-to-Head Pricing Benchmark
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 vs Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
Side-by-side pricing and context window comparison for production model selection.
Default Recommendation (120M input + 60M output)
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 is lower-cost for the default monthly workload scenario.
Adjust the workload in the calculator below to see a live recommendation for your usage.
| Metric | Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 | Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | anthropic | anthropic |
| Context Window | 200,000 | 1,000,000 |
| Max Output Tokens | 64,000 | 128,000 |
| Input Cost / 1M Tokens | $1.00 | $3.00 |
| Output Cost / 1M Tokens | $5.00 | $15.00 |
| Projected Monthly Cost | $420 | $1,260 |
| Vision | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Tool Calling | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Structured Output | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Reasoning | ✅ Yes | ✅ Yes |
| Web Search | ❌ No | ❌ No |
| Tokenizer | Claude | Claude |
| MMLU Score | 76.0 | 77.2★ |
| GPQA | 67.2★ | 59.9 |
Price History
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 Pricing Trend
Current Input / 1M
$1.00
Current Output / 1M
$5.00
Price History
Anthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6 Pricing Trend
Current Input / 1M
$3.00
Current Output / 1M
$15.00
Cost Calculator
Adjust your workload to see projected monthly costs.
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5
$420
per month
Lower costAnthropic: Claude Sonnet 4.6
$1,260
per month
Live Recommendation
Anthropic: Claude Haiku 4.5 is lower-cost at 120M input + 60M output tokens/month.
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