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Claude Haiku

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One kind of Claude. Also: Opus, Sonnet, Fable, Mythos.

Jason Lemkin
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2 creators use or recommend it

▲ 1 active in the last 90 days

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Last discussed Nov 5, 2026

How Claude Haiku compares

2 creators weighed in

Compared to open-source models

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Harry Stebbings

"But then you also see Haiku and Anthropic's newest models being incredibly performant and incredibly cheap."

Compared to open-source models

Jason Lemkin

"Why do you want to have this meeting? Let's just use Haiku 55. It's pretty good."

Offered as a safer alternative to Chinese open-weight models like Qwen and Kimi

What creators say

Jason Lemkin
uses mentioned Haiku 5.5 · newest
Used for: Powering the AI matching recruiting app's B2B workflows Praised: About 72% lower cost, faster, higher quality on the same task vs: Says no earlier model got cheaper on an as-used basis, despite evals and toke...

"When I switched it myself to Haiku 5.5 and Jev, total costs went down about 70%, 72%... It's faster and 72% cheaper and better. Nothing got cheaper until Haiku 5.5 plus Jev. And I saw a 72% decline for B2B workflow running constantly, for the same..."

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Haiku 5.5 · newest

"Why do you want to have this meeting? Let's just use Haiku 55. It's pretty good."

Haiku 5.5 · newest

"Haiku 5.5... it's almost as good for a lot of use cases as Sonnet. And it's a tenth or a twentieth the price. It's shocking, it's so cheap. Haiku 5..."

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Harry Stebbings
uses mentioned HaikuSaid Jul 2026, when Haiku 4.5 was newest
Used for: Cheap, simple AI tasks at low cost Praised: Very low cost (tenth of a cent), good quality for simple tasks, adjustable qu... vs: Positioned as a strong competitor in the 'B-tier' cheap model bucket vs. Llam...

"I don't think we talk about it, but I think Haiku from Anthropic is a pretty damn good product and in one day they could make it better just by adjusting the slider of how much Opus you get in Haiku. I literally use a massive amount of Haiku and f..."

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"But then you also see Haiku and Anthropic's newest models being incredibly performant and incredibly cheap."

Riley Brown
mentioned HaikuSaid Jul 2026, when Haiku 4.5 was newest
vs: Listed alongside Grok 4.1 fast and GPT 5 mini as cheaper model alternatives

"We can see that we can select Grok 4.1 fast, GPT 5 mini, or Claude Haiku. I did say to use the cheaper models."

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