"at one-third the cost and more than twice the speed,"
"It's is opening up entirely new categories of what's possible with AI in production environments - with Sonnet handling complex planning while Haiku-powered sub-agents execute at speed,"
"We're giving people a complete agent toolbox where each model has the right combination of intelligence, speed, and cost for different parts of the job."
"unlocking an entirely new set of use cases."
Haiku 4.5 is a lightweight Anthropic model positioned to deliver Sonnet 4–level capabilities with lower cost and higher throughput. Haiku scored 73% on SWE-Bench verified and 41% on Terminal‑Bench, trailing Sonnet 4.5 but matching Sonnet 4, GPT‑5, and Gemini 2.5. Tool-use, computer-use, and visual-reasoning benchmarks show similar parity. Haiku 4.5 will become the default for all free Anthropic plans to reduce server load and enable richer free-tier capabilities. The small model size enables parallel deployment of many Haiku agents or hybrid stacks combining Haiku sub-agents with a larger planner model. Immediate applications include latency‑sensitive software development and code-generation tools.
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