Model pricing
Claude Haiku 5.5 pricing — cost per million tokens
Claude Haiku 5.5 costs $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens (USD). Requests with >100K tokens in the prompt, including cache reads and writes, use the premium rates for the whole request. It uses the newer tokenizer, which emits ~30% more tokens for the same text.
| Token rate | USD / 1M tokens |
|---|---|
| Effortqualitative reasoning depth | Medium |
| Inputper 1M tokens | $0.10 |
| Output | $0.50 |
| Cache write · 5-minuteper 1M tokens | $0.125 |
| Cache write · 1-hourper 1M tokens | $0.20 |
| Cache readper 1M tokens | $0.01 |
| Input · >100K context | $0.50 |
| Output · >100K context | $2.50 |
| Cache write · 5-minute · >100K context | $0.625 |
| Cache write · 1-hour · >100K context | $1.00 |
| Cache read · >100K context | $0.05 |
Claude Code computes your real per-token cost from local session logs at these rates — no estimate, no upload.
Cache & context economics
Cache reads cost $0.01 per million tokens — about a tenth of input. Cache writes cost $0.125 for 5 minutes or $0.20 for 1 hour, per million tokens. The >100K tokens context tier reprices the whole request.
Common questions
- How much does Claude Haiku 5.5 cost per million tokens?
- $0.10 input and $0.50 output per million tokens (USD list price).
- Does US-only inference change Claude Haiku 5.5 pricing?
- Yes. A request pinned to US-only inference bills every token category at 1.1x these rates. JP the Cat applies it to turns Claude Code logs with inference_geo "us".
- What is the cache-read price for Claude Haiku 5.5?
- $0.01 per million cached-read tokens — about a tenth of the input rate.
- How is cache writing priced for Claude Haiku 5.5?
- Cache writes cost $0.125 for 5 minutes or $0.20 for 1 hour, per million tokens.
- Does Claude Haiku 5.5 have a context pricing tier?
- Yes — at >100K tokens input rises to $0.50 per million for the entire request.
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A live menu-bar total, priced to the cent from your local logs — including the cache-write split most tools miss.
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