Model
Claude Haiku 4.5 API pricing
Compare the published Claude Haiku 4.5 (claude-haiku-4-5) list rate with corouter's outlet rate, and estimate a monthly token bill. Claude Haiku 4.5 is the short-window, low list-rate Claude row: 200K, chat and vision, no Code tag. Send claude-haiku-4-5 for volume that fits that window.
Where this model fits
- High-volume classification inside a 200K window
- Short customer-facing turns at the Haiku rate
- Image triage that does not need a 1M window
Estimates only. Actual billing depends on your real token counts, cache hit rate, and the prices in effect at request time.
From the blog
- OpenAI vs Anthropic API pricingBoth vendors publish per-million-token rates, but they price context, output, and caching differently enough that the cheaper choice depends entirely on your workload shape.Read the post
- How to reduce your LLM API costsMost advice about cutting inference spend is vague. This is the concrete version: where the money goes, which five levers move it, and how much each one is worth on a real monthly volume.Read the post