Claude Haiku 5.5 Returns at 10x Lower Price as GPT-6 Goes Free for All

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5 this week, cutting input pricing to 10 cents per million tokens (about $0.1)—roughly 10x cheaper than Haiku 4.5, a reduction of up to 90%. According to Anthropic, the model beats GPT-6 Luna on the OSWorld and Terminal-Bench benchmarks, and early community feedback is positive. Notably, the r/ClaudeAI weekly warns that Haiku 5.5 has a 100k context limit, which users should keep in mind.

Confirmed

Haiku 5.5 officially launched with input pricing of 10 cents per million tokens, about 10x cheaper than Haiku 4.5 (up to 90% off)
Anthropic claims it outperforms GPT-6 Luna on OSWorld and Terminal-Bench
In the same week, OpenAI made GPT-6 the default available model for all ChatGPT users, including free users
Other Claude ecosystem updates: Claude now supports real-time Dashboard and Motion output; chat history moved to cloud storage; Max/Team plans get free monthly credits (per the r/ClaudeAI weekly roundup)
Haiku 5.5 has a 100k context limit (flagged by the r/ClaudeAI weekly)

Unconfirmed

"Beats GPT-6 Luna" is Anthropic's unilateral claim; independent third-party evaluations have not appeared in the materials

Why it matters

Two leading labs bet on opposite strategies in the same week—ultra-cheap small models vs. free access to flagship models—a head-on clash between two different paths for AI commercialization
The 10-cents-per-million-token input price further lowers the cost barrier for agents and large-scale API workloads, and the community has reacted positively

2026-10-09 ~ 2026-10-11 · 5 related posts

Primary sources

Haiku returns at 10 cents per million input tokens, beats GPT-6 on OSWorld — altryne · 2026-10-11 00:00 (UTC+08:00)
ClaudeAI weekly: Haiku 5.5 up to 90% cheaper, chat sessions go cloud-only — ClaudeAI-mod-bot · 2026-10-10 07:43 (UTC+08:00)

This week in AI: Claude Haiku 5.5, GPT-6 rollout, Mistral Large 4 and more — Matt Wolfe · 2026-10-09
[source] ClaudeAI weekly: Haiku 5.5 up to 90% cheaper, chat sessions go cloud-only — ClaudeAI-mod-bot · 2026-10-10
[source] Haiku returns at 10 cents per million input tokens, beats GPT-6 on OSWorld — altryne · 2026-10-11
Haiku 5.5 lands at $0.10/M input and beats GPT-6 Luna on OSWorld, plus OpenAI's 722 math papers — altryne · 2026-10-11
Claude Haiku 5.5 hits 10 cents per million input tokens as GPT-6 goes free for all — thursdai_pod · 2026-10-11