Model
Claude Haiku 4.5 API pricing
Compare the published Claude Haiku 4.5 API list rate with corouter's outlet rate, review context and modalities, and estimate a monthly token bill.
Where this model fits
- High-volume classification and extraction pipelines
- Low-latency customer-facing chat
- Image-aware document triage
Estimates only. Actual billing depends on your real token counts, cache hit rate, and the prices in effect at request time.
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