Anthropic launched Claude Haiku 5.5 on October 7 at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens for prompts up to 100,000 tokens, pricing the model about 75% below Haiku 4.5 on average. That makes AI economically plausible inside the small, repeated decisions surrounding customer support, content classification, in-app assistance and live voice interactions—not only the conspicuous tasks assigned to a premium model. The decision for businesses changes f