Claude 3.5 Haiku - A high-performance AI model by Anthropic, balancing speed, cost-efficiency, and advanced capabilities.

## Overview of Claude 3.5 Haiku Claude 3.5 Haiku is a high-performance AI model developed by Anthropic. It is designed to balance speed, cost-efficiency, and advanced capabilities, particularly excelling in coding, tool usage, and reasoning tasks. The model supports up to 200k tokens of context and is available on multiple platforms, including Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. ## Performance Comparison with Claude 3 Opus Claude 3.5 Haiku's performance is comparable to that of Claude 3 Opus in many intelligent benchmarks. It particularly excels in coding and tool usage tasks, often surpassing Claude 3 Opus in these areas. Despite its high performance, Claude 3.5 Haiku maintains a similar speed and cost to its predecessor, Haiku. ## Key Features of Claude 3.5 Haiku Claude 3.5 Haiku features include fast processing speed, support for up to 200k tokens of context, availability on multiple platforms (Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud’s Vertex AI), and a pricing model of $0.80 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens. It also emphasizes security, with extensive evaluations in multilingual and policy domains, and robust handling of sensitive content. ## Use Cases of Claude 3.5 Haiku Claude 3.5 Haiku is used for natural language processing in chat and dialogue, coding assistance and code completion, data extraction and analysis, content moderation, and building interactive chatbots. It is particularly beneficial for developers, software teams, enterprises, researchers, data scientists, and content creators. ## Pricing Model of Claude 3.5 Haiku The standard pricing for Claude 3.5 Haiku is $0.80 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens. Cost-saving options include prompt caching, which can save up to 90% of costs, and the message batching API, which can save 50% of costs. On Amazon Bedrock, the optimized latency pricing is $1 per million input tokens and $5 per million output tokens, offering a 60% faster inference speed. ## Announcement and Release of Claude 3.5 Haiku Claude 3.5 Haiku was announced on October 22, 2024, in a news article titled "Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku" by Anthropic. The model was released later that month, initially supporting text input and later adding image input. As of March 18, 2025, the model is fully available and likely supports image input, though users should verify the latest updates from official sources. ## Supported Platforms for Claude 3.5 Haiku Claude 3.5 Haiku is available on multiple platforms, including Claude.ai, Anthropic API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud’s Vertex AI. This wide availability makes it accessible for various applications and user needs. ## Performance in Coding Tasks Claude 3.5 Haiku performs exceptionally well in coding tasks, surpassing previous models like Claude 3.5 Sonnet and GPT-4o. It achieved a 40.6% score on the SWE-bench Verified benchmark and showed significant improvements in the TAU-bench, particularly in retail and aviation tool usage tasks. This makes it a valuable tool for developers and software teams. ## Security Measures of Claude 3.5 Haiku Claude 3.5 Haiku has undergone extensive security evaluations in multilingual and policy domains. It is designed to handle sensitive content responsibly and adheres to strict safety standards, ensuring secure and trustworthy AI interactions. ### Citation sources: - [Claude 3.5 Haiku](https://www.anthropic.com/claude/haiku) - Official URL Updated: 2025-03-26