Claude Haiku 5.5 API

US Anthropic | released 2026-10

Claude Haiku 5.5 is Anthropic’s compact, high-throughput model for cost-sensitive workloads such as summarization, classification, extraction and customer-facing chat. It keeps the Claude house style for instruction following while costing a fraction of the larger tiers.

FastTool Use

Pricing (official list, per 1M tokens)

Input

$0.10/M

Output

$0.50/M

Specifications

Context window200K tokens Input modalitiesText StreamingYes APIOpenAI-compatible

How to use Claude Haiku 5.5

Drop-in OpenAI replacement. Change only the base_url and model.

# Python -pip install openai
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://meshtok.com/v1",
    api_key="sk-your-MeshTok-key",
)

resp = client.chat.completions.create(
    model="anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5",
    messages=[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}],
)
print(resp.choices[0].message.content)

# cURL
curl https://meshtok.com/v1/chat/completions \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer sk-your-MeshTok-key" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"model":"anthropic/claude-haiku-5.5","messages":[{"role":"user","content":"Hello!"}]}'