Claude Haiku 4.5
anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5Near-Sonnet quality at a third of the price, the fast tier of the Claude family.
Model overview
Context window
200K
tokens
Input price
—
quoted on request
Output price
—
quoted on request
Weekly volume
—
tokens / week
Open weights
No
API only
Capabilities
4
of 11 tags
Description
Claude Haiku 4.5 is a language model from Anthropic. Webparam does not stock this model yet and can source it on request — tell us what you need it for and we will come back with availability and a price. Anthropic’s stated focus is frontier models with a safety-first identity. The weights are not published, so it is API-only.
Capabilities
- Tool calling
- Calls functions you define and returns their arguments as structured data, the basis of agents.
- JSON mode
- Constrains the response to valid JSON matching a schema you supply.
- Streaming
- Emits tokens as they are generated, so answers appear progressively rather than all at once.
- Vision input
- Accepts images alongside text in the prompt.
Strengths & weaknesses
Strengths
- Excellent speed-quality balance
- Claude reliability at volume prices
- Vision included
Weaknesses
- Depth ceiling below Sonnet
- No caching support
Pricing
Free| Rate | Price | Unit |
|---|---|---|
| Input | $0.00 | per 1M tokens |
| Output | — not charged | — |
Free at the point of use; fair-use rate limits apply to the free tier. Illustrative placeholder pricing.
Context window
200Ktokens
covers prompt and response together, so a long input leaves less room for the answer.
Supported features
| Feature | Support |
|---|---|
| Tool calling | Supported |
| JSON mode | Supported |
| Streaming | Supported |
| Vision input | Supported |
| Audio input | Not supported |
| Long context | Not supported |
| Open weights | Not supported |
| Reasoning | Not supported |
| Fine-tunable | Not supported |
| Batch | Not supported |
| Caching | Not supported |
Example use cases
Interactive products
Excellent speed-quality balance
Sub-agents
Claude reliability at volume prices
Volume workloads
Vision included
Related models
Comparison
| Attribute | Claude Haiku 4.5 | GPT-5.1 Mini | Claude Sonnet 4.5 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Context window | 200K | 400K | 1M |
| Input price | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Output price | — not charged | — not charged | — not charged |
| Tool calling | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| JSON mode | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Vision input | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| Open weights | Not supported | Not supported | Not supported |
| Prompt caching | Not supported | Supported | Supported |
Best value in each row is highlighted. Illustrative placeholder data.
Provider information
View Anthropic →Anthropic · San Francisco, United States · est. 2021
Founded by former OpenAI researchers, Anthropic pairs frontier capability with an explicit safety research agenda. 5's million-token context a favourite for repository-scale tasks.
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Input is billed at $0.00 per 1M tokens, and there is no separate output charge. Every figure on this page is an illustrative placeholder.